Struggling a month ago, the Die Linke party surged into Parliament by riding a backlash against conservative immigration policy.
An alliance between Friedrich Merz’s conservatives and the center-left SPD is the only viable path to form a new government ...
Germany’s mainstream conservatives have won the country’s national election, while a far-right party surged to become the ...
“That feeds into this whole far-right populist narrative that the mainstream parties are abandoning those areas,” Lueders ...
Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...
BERLIN ― Germany’s far-left Die Linke party ― or The Left ― was struggling with declining support for years. So when its star politician, Sahra Wagenknecht, broke away at the end of 2023 to ...
Four candidates are running to be Germany’s next leader: incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Friedrich Merz, current Vice ...
The parallels between the two are unmistakable: unhappy electorates, unpopular leaders, the politics of inflation and immigration, a struggling center-left party, an ascendant populist right. But it ...
Friedrich Merz is poised to become Germany’s next chancellor, but his victory may not deliver the stability many voters had ...
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