Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...
The leading candidate, Friedrich Merz, a conservative who has adopted many of the AfD’s hard-line positions on immigration, ...
Germany’s right-wing populist Alternative für Deutschland party, or AfD, is on course for a stunning result in Sunday’s ...
The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.
The AfD doubles its vote share to 20.8 percent in weekend elections and becomes Germany’s second-largest party.
The far-right had its strongest showing since World War II, while the center-left Social Democrats had their worst postwar ...
CDU leader Friedrich Merz has ruled out any such alliance but caused uproar last month by bringing a motion to parliament ...
German voters gave the far-right AfD party second place in elections, which will make the Christian Democrat Party's Friedrich Merz the next chancellor.