The conservative CDU/CSU won, and the chancellor's Social Democrats were voted out in a disastrous result for the party. One in five Germans voted for the far right. What does this mean for Germany?

Germany's free-market liberals, the Free Democrats (FDP), suffered a massively disappointing defeat in Sunday's election and ...

The left-wing conservative BSW party fell just short of the 5% threshold to enter the Bundestag with a nail-biting share of 4 ...

The Left won 8.8 percent of the vote, nearly doubling its share from the last election. It performed especially well in the ...

While the far right made historic gains in Germany's elections on Sunday, Conservative politician Friedrich Merz won with ...

Winning the most votes and providing Germany's next chancellor — the conservative Union of the Christian Democrats (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU) has achieved ...

It is a political scenario characterized by a general turn to the right, but also to the left, by the unexpected ascent – ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, the presumptive next chancellor, has won his constituency in Sunday's ...

Nach dem verpassten Wiedereinzug der Liberalen in den Bundestag wird der ehemalige Bundesfinanzminister und FDP-Chef ...

Right to the right in the most populous country and the largest economy of the European Union. The conservatives of the ...

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Friedrich Merz’s party has won the most seats in Germany’s election. But after ridiculing the left and embracing far right ...