The election in the state of 2.5 million people followed other recent polls in states in the east of the country, where the ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats narrowly beat the far-right AfD in a state election Sunday in the formerly communist east, a rare bit of good news for his party.

Global leaders gather for climate meetings in New York as growing mistrust is highlighted. Germany's SPD fends off far-right ...

Germany has avoided having a far-right party as the strongest force in a second state on Sunday, just weeks the anti-migrant ...

The Social Democrats of Chancellor Olaf Scholz have won an election in the eastern German state of Brandenburg. They gained a ...

The narrow win by Olaf Scholz’s party came in a state election, the third in a series that was seen as a reflection of the ...

The SPD, which has governed the state surrounding the capital Berlin since reunification in 1990, scored 30.9% of the vote, ...

AfD calls its performance in Brandenburg ‘huge success’ but Social Democratic party projected to take the lead. Summary ...

Scholz’s centre-left Social Democrats likely to win 31 percent of the vote in Brandenburg, a slight lead over AfD at 29 ...

Brandenburg is a longstanding stronghold for the party. But it is located in Germany’s relatively impoverished east, where ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD) managed to fend off the far-right AfD in a state election in ...

BERLIN -- German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD) looked set to fend off the far-right in a state election in ...