Friedrich Merz is a longtime rival of Angela Merkel who has tried to move their party back to the right.

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The conservative leader’s attacks signal the next government may be just as discordant as the one that recently fell.

Musk wrote on social media that only AfD, the country’s most prominent extreme-right party, “can save Germany.” ...

Ten weeks away from elections and with a double-digit lead over his closest rival's party, conservative leader Friedrich Merz ...

Olaf Scholz has lost a vote of confidence in his leadership and Germany now faces its first election of the truly post-Angela ...

Germany’s likely next chancellor shares his party’s pro-EU and Atlanticist instincts, but also the country’s wider reluctance ...

Germany First In an incredible mask-off moment, Elon Musk has endorsed Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD, per ...

It was not the first online intervention by Elon Musk, the entrepreneur and adviser to Donald Trump, on behalf of once-fringe ...

A post from Elon Musk on his platform X claiming that only the far-right AfD party can "save Germany" sparked accusations ...

If polls are correct, Olaf Scholz’s successor could be the 69-year-old leader of the Christian Democratic Union. He is ...

Ten weeks away from elections and with a double-digit lead over his closest rival's party, conservative leader Friedrich Merz ...