One in five voters in the German election favored the far right. The AfD leader’s dramatic rise terrifies many of the others.

Germany’s federal elections took place this weekend, with the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...

The leading candidate, Friedrich Merz, a conservative who has adopted many of the AfD’s hard-line positions on immigration, ...

Germany’s right-wing populist Alternative für Deutschland party, or AfD, is on course for a stunning result in Sunday’s ...

As Germany heads to the polls, a look at the politician cultivating the anti-immigrant party’s ‘image of competence’.

BERLIN (AP) — German far-right AfD leader Alice Weidel pledges to overtake conservative bloc, vows to win first place in next ...

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservatives have won a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, ...

The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.

Shortly after the German election polls closed Sunday, Elon Musk placed a congratulatory call — but not to conservative ...

Four candidates are bidding to be Germany’s next leader in Sunday’s election. The would-be chancellors are the incumbent, the ...