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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Four candidates are bidding to be Germany’s next leader in Sunday’s election. The would-be chancellors are the incumbent, the ...

Shortly after the German election polls closed Sunday, Elon Musk placed a congratulatory call — but not to conservative ...