Preliminary results showed Merkel's CDU/CSU group would be the largest in the Bundestag, but with its lead cut to 33.5% of the seats, down from 41.5% in 2013. The SPD fell to 21.6% from 25.7%, a ...

Angela Merkel's fury as her own party teams up with 'far-right' AfD 'I believe it is wrong,' Merkel said, referring to the outcome of a vote in parliament on Wednesday when a CDU motion was passed ...

Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives on Monday ruled out any form of cooperation with Alternative for Germany (AfD), saying the far-right party's anti-immigrant rhetoric was contributing to an ...

Merkel came out strongly against her party's actions. Speaking during a visit to South Africa, the Chancellor called for the "unique" decision to vote with AfD to "be reversed, at least for the CDU." ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday her centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) should not share power with the far-right, anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses a news conference after a party’s leaders meeting in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Feb. 19, 2018.

It wasn’t an anti-immigrant party.” When Merkel accepted 1 million mostly-Syrian refugees in 2015, however, the AfD shifted its focus, adopting an anti-immigrant and anti-Islam platform.