Friedrich Merz is expected to become the next chancellor. Voters in Germany don’t directly elect a chancellor. Instead, they determine the makeup of the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, by voting for a geographic representative as well as for a ...

The Sunday vote comes amid an economy in the doldrums, big questions over Europe's security posture, and a surging far-right.

An economic slump, an immigration crisis and the lifting of a security blanket provided for decades by the U.S. are issues on the minds of German voters. The far-right AfD is polling in second place.

For Germans heading to the polls for a snap election, climate is not quite as important a factor as it used to be.

Germans are going to the polls on Sunday for national elections. Opinion polls suggest the outcome will be a new chancellor and, likely, a new governing coalition.