Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now on course to win 20.5% of the vote, according to latest projections - but there is no ...

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

Former German finance minister Christian Lindner has announced his retirement from politics after his Free Democratic Party ...

Germany may face months of uncertainty after the CDU/CSU conservative bloc won the national election but with no clear option ...

The CDU/CSU has won the Bundestag election after all constituencies have been counted - well ahead of the second-placed AfD ...

Millions of Germans are voting in snap elections. The centre-right CDU is predicted to win the biggest share of votes, putting its leader Friedrich Merz in pole position to be next chancellor. Follow ...

Merz, 69, now faces difficult and time-consuming coalition discussions after the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) ...

Germany's opposition conservatives CDU/CSU won the national election on Sunday, putting leader Friedrich Merz on track to be ...

Germany's conservatives won Sunday's parliamentary elections, heading off the surging far-right AfD party, which roughly ...

A fractured vote hands the far-right party its best result in second place and leaves conservative leader Friedrich Merz ...

Germany's mainstream political parties lost support while the far-right AfD gained ground in one of the last polls published ...