Friedrich Merz, leader of the conservative CDU/CSU bloc, has said "from tomorrow we start working" on forming a government as the far-right AfD won its best-ever results.

Twenty percent of Germans voted for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Sunday’s election, twice as many as ...

AfD leader Alice Weidel celebrated her party's historic performance in Germany's latest national election, with exit polls ...

Germany’s conservative bloc, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), have emerged as the biggest winners in the German federal election, ...

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservatives have won a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, ...

In spite of the Tesla CEO's best efforts, the AfD performed no better than had been expected when snap elections were called.

Merz declared victory on Sunday afternoon after his Christian Democratic Union party was projected to win approximately 30% of the vote.

Friedrich Merz, the man favored by early exit polls to be Germany’s next chancellor after elections Sunday, was forced out of government years ago in a power struggle with Angela Merkel. The leader of ...

BERLIN, February 24. /TASS/. Chairman of Germany’s Free Democratic Party (FDP) and ex-finance minister Christian Lindner said he would retire from politics after the party’s failure at the snap ...

Germany has voted — and the exit polls show opposition leader Friedrich Merz and his Conservative Party on course for a ...

The German federal polls have closed, and the exit polls appear to have handed the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) a victory.