Almost 60 million voters in Germany are called to the ballot boxes on Sunday to elect a new Bundestag, with Friedrich Merz's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) poised to emerge as the biggest ...

Berlin — Provisional results confirmed that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election, while a far-right party surged to become the nation's second-largest. The ...

The party has doubled its support since the previous election in 2021, when it received 10.3% of the vote. It is now the first far-right party in Germany’s post-World War II history to have attained ...

Germany's surging far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, whose official designation as extremist has been rebuked by the White House, called for a snap election following a surprise ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz on Tuesday failed to be elected the country's next chancellor in a first round of voting in parliament, falling six votes short of an absolute majority in a ...

Mr. Merz needed two rounds of voting to become chancellor after a surprising defeat in Parliament hours earlier that threatened to hobble his new government. Jim Tankersley Christopher F. Schuetze ...

Germany's conservative leader Friedrich Merz narrowly lost a vote in the Bundestag to become the next chancellor in an unexpected setback that plunges Europe's largest economy into political ...

Berlin (CNN) — The German chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, has won a vote in parliament to allow a huge increase in state borrowing that is set to super-charge the country’s military spending.