Provisional results confirmed that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election , while far-right party AfD surged to become the nation's second-largest.

With Germany's election in six weeks, Elon Musk was full of praise for his livestream guest on X: Alice Weidel, the far-right Alternative for Germany party's candidate for chancellor.

A candidate from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won a local leadership post for the first time on Sunday in a resounding victory for a group whose anti-migrant, Euroskeptic and ...

On a wet evening in Suhl, in the former East Germany, a smattering of youthful faces were among hundreds lining up to hear from an unlikely idol - Björn Höcke, one of the most controversial ...

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won about 32 to 33% of the vote in the east German state of Thuringia, flattening the center right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) group, which brought in a… ...

A topless feminist has protested against the hard-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as the polls opened in a high-stakes German election. The half-naked activist of the women's rights ...

The collective shunning of the AfD party is part of a longstanding attempt to blunt its move into the mainstream. By Jim Tankersley Reporting from Berlin Germany’s next government will almost ...

The AfD won 20.8% of the vote nationally, and as the light blue areas of the map show, it was dominant in the five states in the east, securing 34%. "East Germans have made it very clear they no ...

Elon Musk and Trump's vice president-elect JD Vance praised AfD, a German political party so extreme that other European far-right parties booted it from their coalition.

When German conservative leader Friedrich Merz takes power next week, he will quickly have to grapple with a tough question: whether to seek to ban the AfD, which is now designated a right-wing ...