Mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz have won Germany's 2025 election. Here's a look in charts at the wins and losses, seats in parliament, possible coalition outcomes and voter demographics ...

The conservative alliance led by Feidrich Merz took the most seats in the German Bundestag, but Alice Weidel’s far-right AfD is close behind.

Democrats might have a chance to replicate the energy of the 2009 grassroots movement—if they actually want to.

The election, triggered by the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s “traffic light” coalition of Social Democrats (SPD), ...

WITH a Nazi grandfather guilty of crimes against humanity, controversial German politician Beatrix von Storch knows only too ...

AfD saw the biggest victory of a far right party since WWII as Social Democrats suffered their largest postwar defeat.

With a record-breaking voter turnout of 83.5%, the highest since unification in 1990, Germans cast their polls in an early ...

Interview with philosopher and political scientist Angelo Bolaffi on the eve of the vote in Germany: "The German electorate is in shock after Munich, an attack that risks weighing on the vote". The ...

One of the most prominent representatives of the Jewish community in Germany, Charlotte Knobloch, has expressed her shock ...

CDU's Freiderich Merz, frontrunner for chancellor, has promised a ‘much tougher stance’ than the one Germany has been ...

Only 15% of women identify Merz as the political leader best suited to become chancellor, compared to 21% of men. The only other candidate demonstrating a similar divide is Alice Weidel, leader of the ...