German elections: CDU’s Merz looks set to be next chancellor as far-right AfD surges
Millions of Germans are voting in snap elections. The centre-right CDU is predicted to win the biggest share of votes, putting its leader Friedrich Merz in pole position to be next chancellor. Follow live updates.
Germany's Merz will push up debt with help of left, says AfD leader
The leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the second largest party in parliament after Sunday's election, said Germany's likely next chancellor would be held hostage by left-wing parties that would seek to loosen tough fiscal rules.
Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...
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Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country faces ...
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Provisional results confirm that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election, while a ...
or AfD, which Mr. Trump's adviser Elon Musk has backed in the elections and which is now Germany's second-largest party after its best showing ever. Merz's conservatives won 208 seats in the 630 ...
Exit polls suggest that Friedrich Merz, the candidate for the conservative Christian Democrats who has vowed to bring ...
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Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s ...
Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as ...
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