Here is a summary of the most likely coalitions and the compromises that will be necessary to reach agreement:GRAND COALITION ...

Germany has a complicated system: voters get two votes, one for the candidate in their own constituency, and another for a party's electoral list. There's also a minimum 5% threshold for a party to ...

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Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as ...

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Former German leader reiterates swipe at chancellor candidate from her own Christian Democratic Union ahead of Feb. 23 ...

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Horst Köhler, a onetime head of the International Monetary Fund who became a popular German president before stunning the ...

Ever since the end of World War II, Germany's mainstream political parties have vowed to not work with extremist right-wing ...