February 23, Germany is holding elections for the Bundestag. Voter turnout in the early stages of voting has slightly decreased compared to the previous elections in 2021. However, German politicians, ...

After Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) won a plurality of seats in federal elections Sunday, party ...

The conservative CDU led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's 2025 election. Here's a look in charts at the wins and losses, seats in parliament, voter demographics and possible coalition outcomes.

Two days after the Bundestag elections in Germany, the AfD parliamentary group, which has doubled in size, has been constituted in Berlin. It also ...

The leader of Germany's free-market liberal Free Democrats (FDP), ex-finance minister Christian Lindner, said on Sunday that he will retire from politics if the party fails to make it into parliament.

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) came second in Germany’s parliamentary election on 23 February, with 21% of the vote and 152 seats. The AfD is a viciously far-right populist party. It polemicises ...

While still performing strongly in eastern Germany, the AfD’s vote share dropped in the 2021 elections to 10.3 percent, making it the fifth largest party in the Bundestag. The party struggled to ...

It’s clear to see why it was so contentious. If the rules were applied to the 2021 election results, the Bundestag would’ve been cut by 105 seats. The Bavarian center-right Christian Social ...

German voters go to the polls Sunday to elect a parliament that will determine who runs the country for the next four years.

The Bundestag is now led by the center-left Social ... and previously lost two votes to lead the CDU in 2018 and 2021. He holds more conservative views than Merkel and represents a further-right ...