Most of the time, German parties come to power in states and nationally by forming coalitions. As long as the firewall holds, the only way the AfD can take power is by winning a straight-up majority.

Germany’s far-right AfD party have surged to an historic second place in national elections, securing an unprecedented ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany’s Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU), will be the next chancellor - but will exclude second place AfD ...

Since its founding, the nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has stood in opposition. In 2026, it hopes to win state-level governing power and perhaps more.

Bjorn Hocke, AfD leader, gestures on the day of the Thuringia state election in Erfurt, Germany - Reuters Germany’s far-Right party is on course to win an election in a state parliament for the first ...

A far-right party won a state election for the first time in post-World War II Germany in the country's east on Sunday, and looked set to finish a very close second to mainstream conservatives in a ...

Katja Hoyer is a German-British historian and journalist. Her latest book is Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany. Riding high in the polls, the anti-immigration Alternative für Deutschland (AfD ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's new Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Tuesday that simply banning the far-right Alternative for Germany would not end the groundswell of support for it, noting it was key ...

Shortly before last weekend’s German elections, Elon Musk predicted on his X platform that “it is only a matter of time before AfD wins.” The extreme right-wing Alternative für Deutschland ...