Friedrich Merz is set to become Germany's next chancellor, as exit polls show his centre-right grouping has won the general election. The far-right AfD appears to have come second. See more episodes ...

The Christian Democratic Union and its allied Christian Social Union secured the largest share of votes in the German federal ...

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Alternative for Germany, a far-right political party under surveillance by intelligence services for suspected extremism, ...

Voters give the center-right a chance to govern, but the AfD lurks to take advantage of failure.

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Outgoing German chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded the election and decried the historic gains of the far-right conservative ...

Opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservatives have won Germany's national election. The far-right Alternative for Germany ...

Germany’s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is set to return to power with the far-right Alternative for Germany ...