When his coalition collapsed after a budget dispute in 2024, it sealed his fate.

CDU celebrations are muted because a 28.52pc vote share means a weaker negotiating position in coalition with the centre-Left ...

The conservative CDU led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's 2025 election. Here's a look in charts at the wins and losses, seats ...

Of all three former governing parties, the Greens performed best in the recent general election. But they have still landed ...

Twenty-one lawmakers with Balkan roots have been elected to the new Bundestag – most of them with Turkish roots and ...

The recent wave of job terminations following the 2024 elections indicates a major flaw in Ghana’s governance system and must ...

Leadership from Berlin will be essential to safeguard Europe against Russia and ward off election interference from America.

German government coalition talks between CDU and SPD to begin, Merz says The centre-right party's leader Friedrich Merz said CDU and SPD are to enter talks to form a coalition, one day after the ...

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) came second in Germany’s parliamentary election on 23 February, with 21% of the vote and ...

Germany's Social Democratic Party faces a lack of leadership following its defeat on February 23, having garnered only 16.5% ...

As victor Friedrich Merz tries to build a coalition, Germany could find itself in a vicious cycle where the compromises ...

However, reunification in 1990 allowed Angela Merkel, the East German daughter of a protestant pastor, to enter politics and ...