Several German election candidates have cried foul as a new electoral ... which reached a record 735 parliamentarians in 2021, Chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition of Social Democrats, Greens ...

Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU)—collectively known as the ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz was elected in a second ballot by lawmakers as post-World War II Germany's 10th chancellor ...

Free Expression: Alternative for Germany more than doubled its 2021 vote share to 20% in the 2025 election, but the winning Christian Democratic Union, which sees the AfD as a pariah, has said it ...

doubling its share compared to the 2021 elections and thus also doubling its number of seats in parliament. With the unprecedented rise of the far-right in the German Federal Parliament since the ...

Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic ... had topped the polls in the national elections in February with 28.5 percent of the vote, but it still required at ...