Live updates: Merz’s conservatives win Germany election as far-right AfD makes historic gains
Outgoing German chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded the election and decried the historic gains of the far-right conservative party, AfD. Early exit polls show AfD is headed for second place, while opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservatives are in the lead and Scholz’s party fell to third.
Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday he had invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ...
Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany's mainstream conservatives, has said that Europe must become independent from the ...
The Christian Democrat, who appeared to have a path to a stable governing coalition, hopes to lead Europe’s response to ...
The 69-year-old faces lengthy coalition negotiations after the far-right AfD surged to a historic second place in a fractured ...
Friedrich Merz's CDU party emerged as the largest party in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, earning 28.6% of the vote.
Exit polls suggest that Friedrich Merz, the candidate for the conservative Christian Democrats who has vowed to bring ...
Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...
Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s ...
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