Live updates: Merz’s conservatives win Germany election as far-right AfD makes historic gains
Outgoing German chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded the election and decried the historic gains of the far-right conservative party, AfD. Early exit polls show AfD is headed for second place, while opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservatives are in the lead and Scholz’s party fell to third.
The former East Germany still votes virtually as a separate country — and increasingly for a party that has been linked to ...
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Trump hailed the result as a "GREAT DAY FOR GERMANY," while the far-right AfD party that Elon Musk has championed made ...
The center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister party, the CSU, led with 28.6% of the vote, while the AfD came in second with 20.8%, more than doubling its previous share. CDU leader ...
Four candidates are running to be Germany’s next leader: incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Friedrich Merz, current Vice ...
Germany's election winner Friedrich Merz wants to form a government quickly in order to revive a moribund economy, hike ...
Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...
“That feeds into this whole far-right populist narrative that the mainstream parties are abandoning those areas,” Lueders ...
One lesson from an Alternative für Deutschland rally and this weekend’s election results: The Cold War never ended.
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