The preliminary results of Germany’s national election on Sunday are in, with conservative parties winning the most votes and the far-right nearly doubling its seats in the national legislature.

A German spy agency deems the party a threat to the “democratic order,” but voters say otherwise—should they be silenced, too ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), which finished second in the most recent election, demanded fresh elections after Merz's loss, the first time in German history that a chancellor ...

“What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD—which took second in the recent election—but rather the establishment’s deadly open border immigration policies that the AfD opposes ...

The anti-immigration AfD has come from nowhere to make major electoral gains in recent months with big wins in the former East German states of Thuringia and Saxony in regional elections in ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has welcomed the failure of Christian Democrat (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz to be elected chancellor in the first round of voting by lawmakers in Germany ...

Though the AfD finished second in elections in February, with 20.8 percent of the vote, Mr. Merz and his conservative Christian Democratic Party joined other mainstream parties in a pledge to shun ...

Among AfD voters, this figure was much higher, at 70%. So many young people are voting for extreme fringe parties because these parties’ views have become completely normal for them? In their ...