The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.

German voters cast their ballots in Sunday’s election, with opposition leader Friedrich Merz claiming victory and Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceding defeat. Alternative for Germany, or AfD, is heading ...

Millions of Germans are voting in snap elections. The centre-right CDU is predicted to win the biggest share of votes, ...

Friedrich Merz, who is on course to become post-World War II ... right anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party despite ...

there will be an interim Chancellor Friedrich Merz and in the coming years we will overtake the Union.” Merz dismissed the idea that voters wanted a coalition with AfD. “We have fundamentally ...

Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country faces economic and diplomatic crises.

Merz expressed concern over changing relations with Washington under the Trump administration, emphasizing the need for gradual independence from the U.S.

Exit polls show opposition leader Friedrich Merz's center-right Christian Democratic ... bloc at 28.5-29% and Alternative for Germany, or AfD, at 19.5-20% — roughly double its result from ...

The conservatives’ expected victory comes despite a historically strong showing by the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD.

Germany’s likely chancellor Friedrich Merz has said the rise of the far-right AfD party is a “final warning” to democratic parties. Mr Merz, leader of the centre-right conservative party ...

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

The German chancellor-in-waiting said he would like talks with France and Britain about sharing weapons, but not as a ...