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.

The Christian Democrats, AfD and Die Linke won more votes than in the last general election. Far left Center left Center left Liberal There were smaller surprises, including the last-minute surge ...

A map (below) shows the vast majority of the electorates where the AfD won in the election’s crucial “second vote” – which decides the makeup of the Bundestag, the country’s parliament ...

The center-right Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) are on course to return to power in Germany, with the latest projections showing Friedrich Merz’s party leading the national election. The far-right ...

Here are five key takeaways. AfD dominant in east, spreading to the west Look at an election results map of Germany, and you could almost have travelled back in time to the Cold War, when an iron ...

BERLIN — After our federal election Sunday, I looked at a map of ... a 46-year old gay woman married to a woman born in Sri Lanka, AfD has doubled its share to 20.8% by campaigning for a massive ...

That coalition had been cobbled together for one purpose only: to ensure that the AfD, a strong second-place finisher in the February parliamentary elections, was kept out of government. Since those ...

Co-leader Alice Weidel’s AfD has nearly doubled its representation in the Bundestag, winning just 85 seats in the 2021 elections - and crucially, taking its national support from 10.4 per cent ...

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