Congratulatory messages and reactions have begun to trickle in as Friedrich Merz and the centre-right Christian Democratic ...

Friedrich Merz’s Conservatives win as far right party makes big gains - Likely new chancellor has ruled out coalition with ...

Voters turned out in record numbers for the German election. Here’s a look in charts at the wins and losses, seats in ...

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For the first time since the Second World War, a far-right party has come second in a German national election, a result that ...

Merz, 69, faces complex and lengthy coalition negotiations after the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) surged to a ...

For the first time since WWII, Germanys far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has secured second place in a national ...

Merz had signalled openness to reforming Germany’s “debt brake” to finance badly needed infrastructure investments and a ...

Provisional results in Germany’s election confirm that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national ...

Germany's mainstream conservatives have won the country's national election, while a far-right party surged to become the ...

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

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