Weidel led the Alternative for Germany, a male-dominated party accused of far-right extremism, from the fringes into the ...

The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.

Germany's conservatives won the national election on Sunday, while the far-right Alternative for Germany came in second, its best ever result.

With Angela Merkel and Olaf Scholz ... he voted together with the AfD, which was one of the very controversial moments. I sometimes am not sure if the strategy of Merz is really thoughtful ...

Merz’s draft legislation, however, raised the ire of former Chancellor and CDU leader Angela Merkel, who intervened. Now retired from politics, Merkel is a scorched-earth, never-AfD hardliner ...

But a historic rise in support for Germany's anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has left ... "We now miss the days when Mrs. Merkel was in charge of the government," he said, ...

The AfD reached a particularly large number of ... “open door” policies it became synonymous with under Angela Merkel, Merz has vowed to bring the party back to its more conservative roots ...

When Merkel killed the Maastricht Agreement to bail out Greece, a number of economists started the AfD, as an alternative to the laissez-faire Euro policy of Merkel, Sarkozy, Juncker and co. "The ...

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Early exit polls cited by multiple outlets project the CDU—the party of former Chancellor Angela Merkel—is expected ... ahead,” as quoted by BBC News. AfD is projected to receive the second ...