German elections 2021

Issued on: 24/11/2021 - 16:35 Three German parties have reached a deal to form a new government that will end the era of longtime Chancellor Angela Merkel, according to Olaf Scholz,…

Issued on: 07/10/2021 - 21:42 The beleaguered chief of Angela Merkel’s CDU party signalled Thursday that he was ready to step aside as leader of the conservatives, after an election…

Issued on: 28/09/2021 - 14:22 After narrowly beating Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Sunday’s general election, members of Germany’s Social Democrats…

Issued on: 27/09/2021 - 15:17 The centre-left Social Democrats led by Olaf Scholz narrowly defeated Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives in Sunday's vote to decide her successor,…

Exit polls put Germany’s two major parties neck and neck coming out of Sunday’s polls. While the official results have yet to be released, Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff says the overall trend is clear: Germans voted for the…

Issued on: 26/09/2021 - 07:45 Germany goes to the polls today in one of the most unpredictable elections in its recent history. Angela Merkel's conservatives led by Armin Laschet and…

Issued on: 25/09/2021 - 14:34 Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday urged Germans to give her would-be successor Armin Laschet the vote to shape Germany's future, in a last-ditch push…

Issued on: 25/09/2021 - 13:21 As Germany goes to the polls on Sunday in general elections that mark the end of the 16-year Angela Merkel era, the extreme-left party Die Linke stands…

Issued on: 24/09/2021 - 13:45 Tens of thousands of climate activists including Greta Thunberg began descending on German cities Friday to crank up the pressure on candidates…

Four years after its stunning election to the German parliament, the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) has been largely sidelined during an election campaign in which its favourite scapegoats – migrants, the…