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Live updates: Merz’s conservatives win Germany election as far-right AfD makes historic gains
Outgoing German chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded the election and decried the historic gains of the far-right conservative party, AfD. Early exit polls show AfD is headed for second place, while opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservatives are in the lead and Scholz’s party fell to third.
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 mainstream conservatives won the country's national election, while a far-right party surged to become the nation’s ...
Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...
Exit polls suggest that Friedrich Merz, the candidate for the conservative Christian Democrats who has vowed to bring ...
Friedrich Merz's CDU party emerged as the largest party in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, earning 28.6% of the vote.
Friedrich Merz, likely Germany's next chancellor, said he was under "no illusions" about the White House's impact on ...
Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany's mainstream conservatives, has said that Europe must become independent from the ...
Trump hailed the result as a "GREAT DAY FOR GERMANY," while the far-right AfD party that Elon Musk has championed made ...
Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political ...
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