The parties standing in the federal election are, from left to right on the political spectrum: Linke (the Left), SPD (social ...

Germany’s general election is fast approaching, and several of the country’s political parties have put sports into focus in ...

Four candidates are bidding to be Germany’s next leader in Sunday’s election. The would-be chancellors are the incumbent, the ...

With 735 seats, Germany’s Bundestag is the largest elected parliament in the world. It’ll get significantly smaller after the ...

The margin of error for individual polls is estimated from the poll’s sample size and the number of eligible German voters ...

When the coalition government comprising the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), Greens and neoliberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) emerged after the last German federal election in the fall of ...

The party’s program is founded on the principles of individual freedom and civil rights. It has always campaigned for more tax cuts. The FDP opposes expropriations, rent control, or rent caps and ...

For the first time ever, the CDU has tried to make common cause with right-wing radicals. Protests against these developments ...

Germany has expanded wind and solar energy but failed to cut back on fossil fuel use in the transport sector. Environmental ...

In one week, Germany will choose its future, but before that, the country's four chancellor candidates shared their views on ...

Under election law, parties must obtain a minimum of 5% of second (party) votes before it can claim representation in ...

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