The conservative CDU/CSU bloc secured 28.5% of the vote, while AfD garnered 20%, according to an exit poll published by ZDF public broadcaster.

Germany’s conservative CDU/CSU bloc won the national election, with Friedrich Merz likely to become chancellor. The far-right ...

BERLIN: Germany's opposition conservatives won the national election on Sunday (Feb 23), putting leader Friedrich Merz on ...

This important election has galvanised voters, and campaigning resumed on Saturday evening with a final discussion on ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is poised to become the second biggest political force, ahead of Olaf Scholz's ...

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

Far right comes second, getting best result in a postwar national vote in Germany, sending shock waves across Europe.

Germany’s centre-right CDU and CSU parties have won the federal elections with about 28.5 to 29 per cent of the vote ...

With international politics in flux, three leading historians give their views on the most consequential election in a ...

Alternative for Germany appears to be headed for the strongest showing by a far-right party since World War II in Sunday’s ...