One in five voters in the German election favored the far right. The AfD leader’s dramatic rise terrifies many of the others.

CDU and AfD voters delivered a sharp rebuke to Berlin’s left-wing ruling coalition of Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens. Both ...

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

Germany’s federal elections took place this weekend, with the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian ...

The leading candidate, Friedrich Merz, a conservative who has adopted many of the AfD’s hard-line positions on immigration, ...

Germany’s right-wing populist Alternative für Deutschland party, or AfD, is on course for a stunning result in Sunday’s ...

German far-right AfD leader Alice Weidel pledges to overtake conservative bloc, vows to win first place in next election.

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

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservatives have won a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, ...

The far-right had its strongest showing since World War II, while the center-left Social Democrats had their worst postwar ...