Voting will soon close in national elections. Polls show the hard-right AfD party is likely to have its best showing ever.

Four candidates are running to be Germany’s next leader: incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Friedrich Merz, current Vice ...

The center-right opposition is favored to win, while polls point to the strongest result for a far-right party since World ...

German voters are heading to the polls Sunday for a national election. The race pits the incumbent chancellor against the ...

German citizens aged 18 and up can vote. At least 59.2 million people in the nation of 84 million are eligible, about 2.3 ...

Friedrich Merz, a conservative rival of Angela Merkel, is on track to become the next chancellor, though the far-right AfD is ...

Germany's mainstream parties lost support while the far-right AfD (Alternative for Germany) gained ground in a poll published ...

Alternative for Germany appears to be headed for the strongest showing by a far-right party since World War II in Sunday’s ...

The election is taking place seven months before it was originally planned after center-left Scholz's coalition collapsed ...

Germany heads to the polls in high-stakes elections today to choose the next chancellor, with conservatives favored to win.

An economic slump, an immigration crisis and the lifting of a security blanket provided for decades by the U.S. are issues on the minds of German voters. The far-right AfD is polling in second place.