Trump hailed the result as a "GREAT DAY FOR GERMANY," while the far-right AfD party that Elon Musk has championed made historic gains.

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

The AfD reached a particularly large number of voters ... leader and Germany’s likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz claimed victory as he slammed US interference in the country’s election ...

Projections show German opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservatives have won a lackluster victory in Sunday's national election.

Höcke led the AfD to victory in the Thuringia election in September, the first time a far-right party won a German state election since 1945. He has been convicted in the past for using Nazi ...

But on Sunday, German voters showed he does not control theirs. The AfD’s central pledge is to counteract the so-called Great Replacement, a conspiracy theory that claims white Europeans or ...

While the center-right Christian Democrats secured victory, it was the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party that delivered the biggest shock, capturing around 20% of the vote — double ...

Weidel suggested AfD wouldn’t have to make many concessions to secure a theoretical coalition, arguing that the Union largely copied its program and deriding its “Pyrrhic victory.” ...

It’s not a surprise. An ascendence of AfD into the mainstream would mark a political upheaval as unprecedented and countercultural as Trump’s victory in the U.S. The party hopes to take an axe ...

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Weidel suggested AfD wouldn’t have to make many concessions to secure a theoretical coalition, arguing that the Union largely copied its program and deriding its “Pyrrhic victory.” ...