Exit polls show the center-right Christian Democratic Union party leading, with the AfD party heading towards the strongest ...

Polls are open across Germany as the world’s third largest economy chooses a new leader to guide it through an era of febrile ...

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

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

The collective shunning of the AfD party is part of a longstanding attempt to blunt its move into the mainstream.

Exit poll results suggest vast gains for the far-right AfD party and a sizeable shift in the fortunes of Germany’s two ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...

The conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leads the polls with an estimated 29% of the vote, going by the exit polls, ...

GERMANY’S hard-right party has had its strongest showing since World War Two, exit polls suggest, taking 19.5 per cent of the ...

Centre-right opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc emerged as the frontrunner in Germany’s national election ...

The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.

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.