The Christian Democratic Union (CDU), led by Friedrich Merz, emerged as the top party. Projections indicate that CDU won the highest number of votes, while the far-right Alternative for Germany ...

The Conservatives have claimed victory in the German election but far-right AFD celebrated record results, as ITV News Europe Editor James Mates reports Friedrich Merz's Conservatives have won ...

It sits oddly with a man who conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 U.S. election and has now closed all USAID and State Department-funded democracy promotion programs — the origins of which ...

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BERLIN — The opposition conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won a lackluster victory in Germany’s election Sunday and Alternative for Germany doubled its support in the strongest showing for a ...

Friedrich Merz is likely to become the next German chancellor after his conservative CDU party topped the vote in elections, exit polls project. The stuttering economy and immigration were major ...

Germany’s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) declared victory Sunday as exit polls and early results suggest the party garnered the biggest vote share in the country’s elections ...

KSI promised to bring "cut-throat and straightforward" critique and refused to "sugarcoat" what he said to anyone. "I want emotion. I want you to really love or really hate me," he explained to Radio ...

But a close review of the 2024 election shows just how undemocratic the country’s legislative bodies already are. After decades of gerrymandering and political polarization, a vast majority of ...

The second vote is considered the most important and is most widely reported on election night because it determines the number of seats a party will receive overall in the Bundestag and a party ...

The German election on February 23 saw a record-breaking voter turnout of 82.5%, according to the Federal Election Commission. That's a significant increase from 76.6% in 2021, and the highest ...

The contenders in Germany’s election made their final appeals to voters Saturday, with opposition leader and front-runner Friedrich Merz vowing to revive the stagnant economy and defend Europe ...