The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.

Weidel led the Alternative for Germany, a male-dominated party accused of far-right extremism, from the fringes into the ...

A brash economic liberal who has shifted the conservatives to the right, he is considered the antithesis of former conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel, who led Germany ... migration and how to deal ...

Merz’s draft legislation, however, raised the ire of former Chancellor and CDU leader Angela Merkel, who intervened. Now retired from politics, Merkel is a scorched-earth, never-AfD hardliner ...

Sunday's vote is a pivotal moment for the Alternative for Germany party. It's polling high enough for second place as part of ...

Trump hailed the result as a "GREAT DAY FOR GERMANY," while the far-right AfD party that Elon Musk has championed made historic gains.

The AfD reached a particularly large number of ... “open door” policies it became synonymous with under Angela Merkel, Merz has vowed to bring the party back to its more conservative roots ...

But a historic rise in support for Germany's anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has left ... "We now miss the days when Mrs. Merkel was in charge of the government," he said, ...

When Merkel killed the Maastricht Agreement to bail out Greece, a number of economists started the AfD, as an alternative to the laissez-faire Euro policy of Merkel, Sarkozy, Juncker and co. "The ...

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