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

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat for his center-left Social Democrats after what he called 'a bitter election ...

The conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leads the polls with an estimated 29% of the vote, going by the exit polls, ...

GERMANY’S hard-right party has had its strongest showing since World War Two, exit polls suggest, taking 19.5 per cent of the ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...

Exit poll results suggest vast gains for the far-right AfD party and a sizeable shift in the fortunes of Germany’s two ...

Centre-right opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc emerged as the frontrunner in Germany’s national election ...

German chancellor candidates have spoken publicly to their supporters after exit polls came out indicating the results of the ...

The success of the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, is a sign of the times. Across Europe, far-right parties once on the fringe have gone mainstream.

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

While the exit poll result isn't a surprise, the fragile process of coalition building as well as the number of issues on the ...