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'We have won the election': Germany's conservative leaders celebrate as far-right takes second place
On 23 February, Germany will vote to decide who will run their next federal government. There’s five candidates running to be chancellor – the frontrunner is Friedrich Mertz from the Christian Democrat party. In Germany, a single party rarely wins the majority of seats in the Bundestag, meaning coalition governments often form.
The success of the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, is a sign of the times. Across Europe, far-right parties once on the ...
Outgoing German chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded the election and decried the historic gains of the far-right conservative ...
Merz’s CDU/CSU bloc won 28.6% of the votes, followed by 20.8% for the far-right Alternative for Germany, according to the ...
Germany may face months of uncertainty after the CDU/CSU conservative bloc won the national election but with no clear option ...
How long all of that would take remains to be seen; in the past, it has varied greatly from government to government. In 2017 ...
The Christian Democratic Union party is projected to win the election, but the far-right Alternative for Germany is set for ...
Voters are heading to the polls in Germany, in an election which is being closely watched across Europe and in the United ...
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German voters are choosing their new government in an election dominated by worries about the years-long stagnation of Europe’s biggest economy, pressure to curb migration and growing uncertainty over ...
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