Given the current poll figures, this does not seem very realistic. In 2021, the SPD won the Bundestag election with 25.7% of the vote. In the current ARD Deutschlandtrend poll, it is down to 14%, ...

BERLIN (AP) — Alternative for Germany appears to be heading for its strongest national election result yet this month and is ...

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 ...

If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...

Germany's former chancellor Angela Merkel has doubled down on her criticism of Christian Democratic Union, or CDU, leader ...

The former German chancellor said it was not right to remain silent after her party, the conservative CDU, relied on votes ...

Friedrich Merz , chairman of the conservative Chistian Democratic Union (CDU), believes he is set to become Germany's next chancellor after the general election on February 23. At the final party conf ...

In trying to avoid the mistakes of the past, Germany’s liberal politicians are pushing their country right back toward them.

A CDU office was occupied by protesters in Hannover ... In Berlin on Sunday, 160,000 took to the streets with posts such as “Fritz, listen to Mutti” (Angela Merkel) and “it’s five minutes till 1933”, ...

With Germany's federal election just weeks away, and in the wake of two contentious parliamentary votes, tens of thousands of citizens rallied across the country to voice concern over the rise of the ...

He held the ceremonial post of German president after a finance-focused career. Shortly into his second term, he became the ...

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