Germany's Christian Democratic Union taps Friedrich Merz as its candidate for chancellor in next national election ...

Germany’s opposition center-right Christian Democratic Union has chosen its leader Friedrich Merz to be its candidate for ...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany's Christian Democratic Union taps Friedrich Merz as its candidate for chancellor in next national election.

The Democratic Party is likely pushing away religious voters with "anti-Christian" policies such as abortion and transgender ...

Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is preparing to govern the country, leaders said on Thursday, with only one year to go until parliamentary elections. The centre-right party has been in ...

The party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), won a majority of the vote in Thuringia, coming in ahead of the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and becoming the first far-right party to ...

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won about 32 to 33% of the vote in the east German state of Thuringia, flattening the center right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) group, which brought in ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany won a state election for the first time Sunday in the country's east, and was set to finish at least a very close second to mainstream conservatives in a ...

In Thuringia, AfD was way ahead of the center-right Christian Democratic Union, or CDU, the main national opposition party, which won 23.6% of the votes in a stark defeat for Chancellor Olaf ...

In Thuringia, the AfD is polling around 30 percent, putting it almost 8 points ahead of the second-placed Christian Democratic Union (CDU), while the BSW is scoring 18 percent. In Saxony ...

In second was the traditionally conservative Christian Democratic Union, which was once led by former Chancellor Angela Merkel. It had secured 23.6% of the vote. Related Protests held in eastern ...