The Latest: Merz wins Germany's election while AfD makes historic gains
German voters cast their ballots in Sunday’s election , with opposition leader Friedrich Merz claiming victory and Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceding defeat. Alternative for Germany, or AfD, is heading for the strongest showing for a far-right party since World War II.
The former East Germany still votes virtually as a separate country — and increasingly for a party that has been linked to ...
Trump hailed the result as a "GREAT DAY FOR GERMANY," while the far-right AfD party that Elon Musk has championed made ...
Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...
The center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister party, the CSU, led with 28.6% of the vote, while the AfD came in second with 20.8%, more than doubling its previous share. CDU leader ...
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‘Devastating’: What Germany’s election results mean for JewsGermany’s AfD party placed second in the 2025 election, fueled by immigration fears, despite its association with neo-Nazis.
The far-right had its strongest showing since World War II, while the center-left Social Democrats had their worst postwar ...
The AfD group in the Bundestag on Tuesday voted to accept Matthias Helferich, who is so divisive officials from his own ...
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