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 system that ...

The German electoral system is designed to create stable governments - and to keep minor parties, often at the extreme ends of the political spectrum, out of power. It's a lesson drawn from the ...

Stakes are high in Germany's three September state elections. Saxony-Anhalt was first and voters handed a strong result to the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). The AfD's Saxony-Anhalt branch, ...

Like all political parties in Germany, the far-right Alternative for Germany is a commercial operation. A special national system finances political parties from federal taxes, paying for elections, ...

BERLIN, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Germans go to the polls on Sunday in a snap election called after the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's three-way coalition. This is how Germany's election system works: ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's parliamentary election on Feb. 23 will be the first under new rules designed to cut the size of a parliament that had grown too unwieldy, but they also make vote outcomes ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz faced growing pressure on Sunday after his center-right party finished behind far-right and far-left parties in state elections in the east. By Jim Tankersley Reporting from ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...