Germany's AfD party looks to capitalize on shock vote

The AfD continues to increase in polls. If it registers the majority of votes in the Bundestag election in four years, the Union would "coal in doubt" with the Party, ex-Minister Guttenberg says - even if he wants something different.

In Germany, the Catholic Church grapples with the growing appeal of the far-right AfD

German Catholic bishops say that even where the party has not tipped into extremism, it has failed to reform itself of such tendencies. They charge that a nationalism incompatible with Christianity has become the AfD’s animating ideology.

Germany's AfD party looks to capitalize on shock vote

The far-right Alternative für Deutschland called for fresh elections after Friedrich Merz's initial defeat in his bid to become the country's leader.

The failed chancellor's election leaves a lot of chaos and uncertainty. Once again, only one force in the Bundestag uses it: the AfD.

The new chancellor said on Tuesday he wanted to "do everything" to "get the confidence" of the current voters of the extreme right party Alternative for Germany (AfD), which was growing and now the first opposition group in the Bundestag.

'Chaos': Bundestag Fails to Elect New Chancellor for First Time in History

AfD called for fresh national elections after, for the first time in history, the would-be next chancellor failed to be elected by Parliament.