Germany's Merz Will Push up Debt With Help of Left, Says AfD Leader
BERLIN (Reuters) - The leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the second largest party in parliament after Sunday's election, said Germany's likely next chancellor would be held hostage by left-wing parties that would seek to loosen tough fiscal rules.
Conservatives lead in German elections, far-right AfD comes in second
German opposition leader Friedrich Merz declared victory after his Christian Democrats won nearly 29% of the votes in the country’s federal election. Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democratic Party faced a historic defeat with the lowest vote share for the center-left party since 1949.
Omar Alkadamani, a Syrian-born, naturalised German citizen, used to support Germany's centre-left Social Democrats. Unsettled ...
Germany's mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won the country's national election, ensuring that Ukraine has an ...
Struggling a month ago, the Die Linke party surged into Parliament by riding a backlash against conservative immigration policy.
Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...
The far-right had its strongest showing since World War II, while the center-left Social Democrats had their worst postwar ...
The center-right CDU is expected to emerge triumphant in a campaign that has made little mention of environmental issues.
“That feeds into this whole far-right populist narrative that the mainstream parties are abandoning those areas,” Lueders ...
Germany has long been considered to have relatively ambitious climate goals and it’s likely that combatting climate change ...
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