Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government coalition collapsed last month. Scholz, who is currently leading the country with a minority government, plans to call a confidence vote in parliament on Dec. 16.

Olaf Scholz . The 66-year-old has been Germany's chancellor since December 2021. ... Alice Weidel . The 46-year-old is making the first bid of the far-right, ...

National polls currently show AfD in second place with support of over 20% — behind the mainstream opposition center-right bloc, but ahead of the parties in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's unpopular ...

The debate pits Scholz against his main rival Friedrich Merz, whose centre-right CDU/CSU is far ahead in the polls on around 30%, as well as Alice Weidel from the far-right Alternative for Germany ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Wednesday that he will ask for a vote of confidence on Dec. 16, ... has said they would nominate current party leader Alice Weidel next month as their candidate.

Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz (L), shakes hands with Alice Weidel (C), co-chair of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) parliamentary group and candidate for chancellor, ahead of the "Quadrell" TV ...

Alice Weidel is standing to succeed Olaf Scholz as German chancellor, and while that seems a long way off. | Pool Photo by Kay Nietfeld via Getty Images “The American people are demanding change,” he ...

However, co-leader Alice Weidel said gains for the party on Sunday in the western states of Hesse and Bavaria show that “AfD is no longer an eastern phenomenon, but has become a major all-German ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz issued a rebuke of Elon Musk Saturday even as he vowed to ignore the tech billionaire’s sharp criticisms of him that have ... considering that Alice Weidel, ...

(CNN) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has rejected “outside” interference in the country’s elections, insisting that Germans would decide their democracy for themselves, as he hit back at ...