Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political ...

Friedrich Merz’s conservatives celebrate win after far-right AfD makes record gains - Likely new chancellor has ruled out ...

Ms Merkel moved to consolidate her grip on Germany’s centre-right after the Union narrowly lost a national election in 2002. She pushed Mr Merz aside as leader of its parliamentary group, taking the ...

Germany’s mainstream conservatives have won the country’s national election, while a far-right party surged to become the ...

Provisional results confirm that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election, while a ...

Friedrich Merz led the party to a 28.6% share of the vote. The far right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party came second with ...

The leader of Germany’s Central Council of Jews, Josef Schuster, expressed his shock, telling the Welt newspaper: “Although ...

German voters turned out to vote en masse on Sunday and gave Friedrich Merz, the leader of the conservative CDU/CSU bloc, a mandate to succeed Chancellor Olaf Scholz. But this mandate is far from ...

Berlin: Germany s conservatives swept to victory in Sunday s elections, with their leader Friedrich Merz set to become the next chancellor, followed ...

The Alternative for Germany party, which achieved the best result in its history in the elections (20.8%), could have taken ...

Germany’s conservatives won the national election on Sunday but a fractured vote handed the far-right Alternative for Germany ...