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

Friedrich Merz will try to govern with a moderate coalition at a time of rising support for extremist political forces ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has lurched to the right with the once outcast Alternative for Germany ...

France's influential opposition leader, Marine Le Pen, whose party is also considered far-right, has distanced herself from ...

While polling suggests Germany's far-right AfD party will fare well, it's very unlikely to be part of the next government of ...

or ‘Erststimme’, is for a candidate running in the voter’s electoral district or constituency - there are 299 of these across Germany. The candidate who gets the most votes in a given district wins ...

Three trends, each a source of grave concern for Germans, form the backdrop to Sunday’s Bundestag elections: an uncertain, even threatening international outlook; a tense, divided domestic political ...

The country's proportional voting system, and the decades-old agreement ... "usually means that there is not much change in Germany's political settlement". But the "emergence of a challenger ...

Four candidates are running to be Germany’s next leader: incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Friedrich Merz, current Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, and Alice Weidel, of the far-right AfD.

Opposition leader Friedrich Merz's Christian Democrats hold commanding lead against Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats in latest opinion polls, though coalition options remain unclear amid far-right AfD's ...

One of the main advocates of this policy within the party is Peter Boehringer, AfD’s federal vice chairman and a well-known ...