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

Germany’s right-wing populist Alternative für Deutschland party, or AfD, is on course for a stunning result in Sunday’s German election, with reports indicating one-in-five voters

Germany’s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) declared victory Sunday as exit polls and early results suggest the party garnered the biggest vote share in the country’s elections—and the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is projected to nab a historic number of votes after billionaire Elon Musk’s endorsement.

Alternative for Germany, the reformation party that sits to the right of the CDU/CSU's centrist conservatism, received approximately 20.8% of the vote.

The centre-right Christian Democrats received the most votes at yesterday's election, while polls suggest Alternative for Germany (AfD) is poised to achieve the best result for a far-right party since WW2.

In Germany that once swore to never again let fascism take over, neo-Nazis of Alternative for Germany (AfD) are projected to be the second-largest party in elections, putting the moderates on notice that if they don’t address the socioeconomic crisis,

Months after American voters returned Donald Trump to the White House, the 2024 U.S. election is casting a giant shadow over the 2025 German election.

We are now a few days away from the German general election (February 23), which is becoming even more significant in the context of the Munich Peace Conference.

Under election law, parties must obtain a minimum of 5% of second (party) votes before it can claim representation in parliament. First introduced in 1953, this law was "intended to prevent tiny splinter parties" from getting into parliament "and fragmenting it, making it hard to form a viable majority", said DW.

Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany's mainstream conservatives, has said that Europe must become independent from the United States in security matters, after his grouping won the biggest share of the vote in federal elections.