Live updates: Merz’s conservatives win Germany election as far-right AfD makes historic gains
Outgoing German chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded the election and decried the historic gains of the far-right conservative ...
Germany’s far-right may be frozen out of power, but the AfD is now a powerful force
Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...
The Iron Curtain Casts a Long Shadow Over Germany’s Election
The former East Germany still votes virtually as a separate country — and increasingly for a party that has been linked to ...
Germany Election Results: Center-Right Leader Declares Victory—And Elon Musk-Boosted AfD Celebrates
Trump hailed the result as a "GREAT DAY FOR GERMANY," while the far-right AfD party that Elon Musk has championed made ...
What to Know About Germany’s Election Results—and What Comes Next
The far-right had its strongest showing since World War II, while the center-left Social Democrats had their worst postwar ...
Did Germany Really Lurch to the Right This Election? It’s Complicated.
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) came in second, doubling its result from last time. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) lost a lot, their coalition partner the Greens a ...
How a Demographic ‘Doom Loop’ Helped Germany’s Far Right
“That feeds into this whole far-right populist narrative that the mainstream parties are abandoning those areas,” Lueders ...
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The Far Right Just Made Terrifying New Gains in Germany
One lesson from an Alternative für Deutschland rally and this weekend’s election results: The Cold War never ended.