The party has doubled its support since the previous election in 2021, when it received 10.3% of the vote. It is now the ...

Germany’s likely chancellor Friedrich Merz has said the rise of the far-right AfD party is a “final warning” to democratic parties. Mr Merz, leader of the centre-right conservative party, is ...

Particularly, in eastern Germany, where they’re very popular in the polling — often over 30% — which means they could take power in those states, which would be the first time a far-right ...

“Exterritorial” is currently the most popular movie on Netflix, according to the platform’s public ranking system. The new German thriller premiered on the streaming service on April 30 and ...

Germany’s far right has won the most votes in a state election for the first time since the Nazi era, in a major rebuke of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ruling center-left coalition.

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 in a second vote, projections showed.

Exit polls show the far-right Alternative for Germany is on track to become the strongest party in a state election for the first time in the country’s east.

Co-leaders of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla react to the first exit polls of the 2025 general election, in Berlin, Germany, February 23, 2025.

The Alternative for Germany still has pariah status among other major political parties in a country where far-right politics has long carried a stigma because of the Nazi past.

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has lurched to the right with the once outcast Alternative for Germany ...

For the first time since World War Two, a far-right party has come second in a German national election. Read more at straitstimes.com.