Friedrich Merz's CDU party emerged as the largest party in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, earning 28.6% of the vote.

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Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany’s CDU, is set to form a coalition after winning the most votes, per exit polls. The ...

Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s ...

While the far right made historic gains in Germany’s pivotal federal elections on Sunday, the conservative Christian ...

Friedrich Merz and his party won, Elon Musk didn’t seem to move voters, and more lessons from an early German vote with big ...

Friedrich Merz, likely Germany's next chancellor, said he was under "no illusions" about the White House's impact on ...

A conservative alliance made up of the CDU and CSU is set to lead Germany again, but the new coalition government will have ...

Friedrich Merz's CDU won Germany's elections with 28.6 percent, while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) recorded ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...

Germany is set for a shift to the right after the conservative CDU/CSU bloc secured a clear victory in Sunday's elections, as ...

Exit polls in Germany show that the country's conservative union of the Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union ...