Chancellor Friedrich Merz's CDU is set to remain the strongest party at the local level in the central state of Hesse. Germany's two ruling parties, the center-right CDU and center-left SPD, look like ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's centre-right CDU faces a regional election Sunday, the first of several this year in which ...

Württemberg, ahead of Chancellor Friedrich Merz's CDU. The far-right AfD was the third strongest party, having made ...

The German Greens have beaten Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservative CDU in a state election seen as a test for the German leader, according to exit polls.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) have a razor-thin lead in Rhineland-Palatinate, a poll showed on Thursday, just 10 days before the south-western state heads ...

Voting has started in the German state of Hesse, where nearly 4. 7 million voters are eligible to cast their ballots in local elections on Sunday, marking another test for the country's ruling ...

Wuerttemberg's state election, surpassing Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservatives despite pre-election trailing.

Württemberg, ahead of CDU, with far-right AfD in third ...

German Chancellor and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party leader Friedrich Merz speaks at the CDU party congress in Stuttgart, Germany, February 20, 2026. REUTERS/Thilo Schmuelgen STUTTGART, ...

Friedrich Merz, the candidate of the mainstream conservative Christian Democratic Union party, gestures while addressing supporters at the party headquarters in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, February 23, ...

Leader’s centre-right CDU party is hoping to beat Greens in Sunday’s election in Baden-Württemberg ...