Exit polls have now been published in Germany’s election, suggesting frontrunner Friedrich Merz’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party has come out well in front, as the far-right AfD ...

A party must receive at least 5 percent of the national vote to enter the Bundestag, the elected chamber of the bicameral parliament. The second vote is considered the most important and is most ...

This is a photo collection curated by AP photo editors.

The pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) netted only 4.3%, meaning that it will not enter the Bundestag as it did not pass the 5% threshold for representation in parliament. The same goes for the ...

With 735 seats, Germany’s Bundestag is the largest elected parliament in the world. It’ll get significantly smaller after the election on Sunday as the result of an overhaul of the voting ...