The chancellor intends to stay on despite 'disaster' for his conservative CDU party, which was squeezed at the polls by both ...

BERLIN/FRANKFURT, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Elections in two German states on Sunday resulted in severe losses for the country's leading Christian Democrats, whose Chancellor Friedrich Merz is facing ...

German political heavyweight Angela Merkel avoided discussing her party’s latest election defeats on Monday, instead backing the Christian Democratic Union to return to its identity as a broad-based ...

Merz called the wipeout a 'disaster' after his conservatives failed to enter a state parliament for the first time in history ...

The leftist Die Linke party won the most votes in Berlin, even as the far right AfD won a state election in the north.

Seen by Jewish leaders as harboring antisemitism, AfD has consolidated its place as country's most popular party; Chancellor Merz is down, but not (yet) out ...

On Sunday, Germany’s socialist party Die Linke won the Berlin elections for the first time. Like New York’s Zohran Mamdani, it beat the establishment parties by offering Berliners concrete action on ...

Two independent exit polls covering 27 countries put New People first with around 45% and United Russia as low as 2.8%, the ...

Key points Germany's Alternative for Germany (AfD) finished first in the state election in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , winning ...

Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party secured a second consecutive victory in the eastern German state parliament elections, while the left-wing party advocating radical housing ...

Elif Eralp led Die Linke to victory in Berlin and could become the capital’s first Governing Mayor of Turkish descent.