In May Merz became the first postwar chancellor to stumble into power on the second vote when he failed to secure an absolute ...

Critics of the German far-right party say that the AfD is still far from having any real influence, as none of the other ...

Germany's far-right lawmakers vowed to dress smartly, minimise parliamentary cat-calling, and signed up to a short manifesto ...

For eight years, the co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has used the Bundestag as a launch pad for ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now Germany’s largest opposition group and even topped several opinion polls – briefly putting it ahead of now-Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s center-right ...

Friedrich Merz's conservatives won 208 seats in the 630-seat Bundestag, while the AfD won 152. The incumbent Social Democrats won 120 seats and the Left party got 64.

An impassioned debate involving abortion and a plagiarism allegation underscores the German coalition’s relative fragility.

Germany’s Bundestag debated the national budget on Wednesday and the far-right AfD party leapt at the chance to blame ...

Merz said he aims to put together a governing coalition as quickly as possible. Exit polls show Merz leading, AfD making big gains. German exit polls show opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s ...

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 ...

He patched together his coalition and won a second vote. In 2017, Mr. Merz had vowed in an interview with Bild magazine to “halve” the AfD vote. Instead, the AfD vote doubled, hitting 10 million in ...

Merz’s conservatives won 208 seats in the 630-seat Bundestag, while AfD won 152. The three parties in the former governing coalition lost seats, with SDP falling to 120 seats and the Greens to 85.