Despite securing key ministries and policy successes, Germany’s Social Democrats face internal disarray and a fractured ...

The party ended up with the worst result since the party was named the “Social Democratic Party of Germany” in 1890 and was pushed into third place by the far-right AfD with almost 21 ...

To reach voters outside its Eastern heartlands, the AfD is putting a new gloss on its anti-immigrant message — while sticking ...

The narrow win by Olaf Scholz’s party came in a state election ... Chancellor Olaf Scholz, whose Social Democrats have been a target, denounced the attacks as a threat to democracy.

Supporters of Germany's Social Democratic Party, SPD, react after first exit polls announced on a party's election event in Potsdam, Germany, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) ...

Germany (AP) — The Social Democrats of Chancellor Olaf Scholz won an election in the eastern German state of Brandenburg on Sunday, gaining a narrow edge over a growing far-right party ...

The party of outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholtz ... with 328 of the Bundestag’s 630 seats. The Union and Social Democrats have governed Germany together before: once in the 1960s, and then in ...

If the deal is approved by the CDU and by grassroots members of the Social Democrats it will clear ... well as the rise of the far-right AfD party in Germany put pressure on the CDU and the ...

On May 2, 2025, four days before parliamentary power was to change hands, outgoing Interior Minister Nancy Faeser from the Social Democratic Party announced that Germany’s domestic spy agency (the BfV ...

The coalition negotiations between the social democratic SPD and conservative right CDU/CSU are going surprisingly smoothly, almost harmoniously. Lars Klingbeil, co-chairman of the SPD, explains ...