Merz will likely move to form a coalition with the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), leaving his conservatives exposed to attacks from the AfD — which is aiming to win the next national ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) has suffered a crushing defeat, while the Greens and liberal Free Democrats (FDP) have seen mixed results. The big question now is how well the ...

Germany has two centrist, "big-tent" parties: Scholz's centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and the opposition conservatives, an alliance of the Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian sister ...