Conservatives lead in German elections, far-right AfD comes in second
German opposition leader Friedrich Merz declared victory after his Christian Democrats won nearly 29% of the votes in the country’s federal election. Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democratic Party faced a historic defeat with the lowest vote share for the center-left party since 1949.
The far-right AfD and the Left jointly secured the one third of seats needed to block constitutional changes. Both oppose ...
Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...
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Provisional results confirmed that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election​, while far ...
The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the Left Party jointly secured one third of seats in the new parliament, ...
Far-right gains and a ‘sharper and edgier’ chancellor are among the takeaways from the country’s contest, an expert says.
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