Exit polls: Merz's conservatives leading in key German state election

Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservatives are ahead in the Rhineland-Palatinate election, exit polls showed on Sunday, ...

SPD loses another state election as CDU triumphs, far-right is third

Another election in Germany - another defeat for the Social Democratic Party (SPD) - or so it seems following yet another ...

German chancellor’s party suffers narrow defeat in key regional election

But the Greens, which have led coalition governments in Baden-Württemberg since 2011, narrowly secured the largest share of the vote with 30.2 per cent, down from 32.6 per cent in the previous 2021 ...
WWLTV

Conservative opposition wins German election and the far right is 2nd with strongest postwar result

BERLIN, Germany — Germany's conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz won a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, while Alternative for Germany doubled its support in the strongest ...
The Forward

‘Devastating’: What Germany’s election results mean for Jews

Germany’s election on Sunday sent a clear, unsettling message with record turnout and a clear anti-immigration pitch. While the center-right Christian Democrats secured victory, it was the far-right ...
Newsday

German election winner Merz and center-left rivals start sounding out a possible coalition

BERLIN — Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats started exploratory talks Friday on a possible coalition government, but were ...