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Friedrich Merz (centre) leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), receives flowers and applause from board members Julia Kloeckner (left), Christina Stumpp (second from left), Carsten Linnemann (second from right), and Silvia Breher (right), at the CDU's headquarters, in Berlin, Germany, February 24, 2025
THE right-wing Christian Democrat Union (CDU) led by Friedrich Merz came first in Sunday’s national election in Germany.
The far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) surged to become the nation’s second-largest.
The CDU won 208 seats in the 630-seat Bundestag, while the AfD won 152.
NICK WRIGHT returns to Berlin and finds a city in darkness and political turmoil
From Reform UK to Trump, Orban and beyond, the far right is organised across borders and growing. Waiting for it to collapse is a fatal error – building an international, locally rooted left alternative is now an urgent necessity., argues ROGER McKENZIE
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
