News, analysis, opinion and polling data on the German federal election in February 2025. An interactive graphic failed to load. This is most likely due to being offline or JavaScript being ...

Alice Weidel, co-leader of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), hugs the party member Bjoern Hoecke during the election party at the party's headquarters in Berlin. (AP photo) Did Musk, Vance play a ...

The first place in the parliamentary elections in Germany is occupied by the opposition bloc of the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU, "Union") of Friedrich Merz, ...

On Feb. 23, Germans will vote in their national elections. Some recent polls indicate that the governing centrist and center-left parties could suffer major defeats, with the conservative ...

After tens of millions of Germans cast their ballots in today's federal election — or some 84% of the country's nearly 60 million eligible voters — the latest exit polls suggest that the CDU ...

The AfD has grown in popularity, and in September 2024 posted major gains in regional elections in the eastern states of Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg. I saw massive support across the east of ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his government face being voted out of office next week, as Germany heads to the polls in an election dominated by Ukraine, energy prices and the rise of the far right.

Voting opened Sunday in a German general election that opinion polls suggest will bring a new chancellor and a new governing coalition. The country’s elections are often a little dry and ...

Parties must clear a 5% electoral threshold in Germany to win seats in the national parliament or at least three of the party's candidates must win their local elections outright. Parties must ...

At right is Robert Habeck of the Green Party. [AP Photo/Kay Nietfeld] Sunday’s federal elections mark a decisive turning point in German and European post-war history. For the first time since ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., USA — New FBI Director Kash Patel has told senior officials that he plans to relocate up to 1,000 employees from Washington to field offices around the country and move an ...