Merz declared victory on Sunday afternoon after his Christian Democratic Union party was projected to win approximately 30% of the vote.

According to Vice-Speaker of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Konstantin Kosachev, Friedrich Merz will adhere to the pan-European position ...

Germany's conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz won a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, while ...

Germany votes in a national election following the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition. Conservative leader ...

BERLIN, February 24. /TASS/. The Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) conservative bloc won the snap election to the Bundestag, the German legislative assembly, with 28.6% of ...

Merz, 69, now faces difficult and time-consuming coalition discussions after the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) ...

BERLIN: Friedrich Merz, set to become Germany's next chancellor after his opposition conservatives won the national election on Sunday (Feb 23), vowed to help give Europe "real independence" from the ...

Chancellor candidate from the conservative CDU/CSU bloc (Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union) Friedrich Merz announced his intention to form a new German government by Easter (celebrated ...

The election results mark a turning point in German politics. Chancellor Olaf Scholz's center-left Social Democrats (SPD) ...

Sporting a cap with the Trump-inspired slogan "Make Duisburg Great Again", AfD candidate Alan Imamura was upbeat as he ...

The BBC's Nick Beake reports from AfD headquarters in Berlin.

Germany's conservative bloc, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU), has taken the lead in ...