Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat as his centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) faced their worst postwar election result, receiving just over 16% of the vote.

With his party topping Germany's snap election poll, Friedrich Merz looks set to fulfil his lifelong ambition of becoming ...

As polls closed in for Germany's crucial parliamentary elections, exit polls revealed a win for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU/CSU) while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is at the ...

Conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz won a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, while the far-right ...

Germans voted for a change of leadership Sunday, handing the most votes in a parliamentary election to centrist conservatives, with the far right in second, and rebuking the nation's left-leaning ...