Christian Lindner, resigned on Sunday night after the party failed to cross the five-percent threshold to enter parliament.

Friedrich Merz is set to become Germany’s new chancellor after provisional results confirmed his mainstream conservatives had ...

The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.

The final results spare the CDU from having to negotiate a three-party coalition with the Greens to leave out the far-right ...