Friedrich Merz, Chairman and candidate for chancellor of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), speaks at the party's headquarters, the Konrad Adenauer House, after the forecast of the German ...

CDU party leader Friedrich Merz is pushing for the election to be held as soon as possible. The CDU adopted a new manifesto in May 2024 after several years of consultations at a regional level.

The Alternative for Germany, or AfD, a right-wing party that accuses the CDU of being just as feckless as its left-wing Social Democratic Party rivals, came in second place with 20.8%.

Friedrich Merz, likely Germany's next leader, vows no cooperation with far-right AfD. His CDU/CSU bloc faced criticism for accepting AfD support on legislation.

BERLIN (CN) — Germany's oldest political party is in crisis. The incumbent Social Democrats' 16.4% showing in February federal elections was its worst ever, 20 points lower than its postwar average.

Germany's Christian Democrats (CDU), who are set to lead the country's next government, on Monday approved a coalition deal with the Social Democrats (SPD), clearing another hurdle on the path to ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has lurched to the right with the once outcast Alternative for Germany ...

The CDU has long refused to work with the Left Party, descended from East Germany's ruling communists. It hasn't ruled out working with Wagenknecht's BSW, which will probably be needed to form any ...

Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian CSU sister party won the election on Sunday and are likely to lead the next coalition government.