In the latest polls, Friedrich Merz’s party – which remains far ahead of the second-place contender – has shown a decline, ...

Polling stations have opened across Germany in early elections to the country’s Bundestag (parliament). Overall, 4,506 candidates, with almost a third of them women, are vying for 630 seats in the ...

Germans were voting in a national election on Sunday that is expected to restore power to Friedrich Merz's conservatives while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is forecast to achieve ...

Germany’s electoral system rarely gives any party an absolute majority and opinion polls suggest that no party is anywhere ...