A far-right party has come second in a German national election for the first time since the Second World War.

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

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

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Germans voted for a change of leadership Sunday, handing the most votes in a parliamentary election to centrist conservatives, with the far right in second, and rebuking the nation's left-leaning ...

The vote comes at a pivotal time for Europe, which faces an increasingly assertive Trump administration.

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 ...

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.

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

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

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