The party ended up with the worst result since the party was named the “Social Democratic Party of Germany” in 1890 and was pushed into third place by the far-right AfD with almost 21 percent ...

The ruling parties of German politics seem to have run out of ideas on how to sway voters away from the growing Alternative ...

If the deal is approved by the CDU and by grassroots members of the Social Democrats it will clear ... well as the rise of the far-right AfD party in Germany put pressure on the CDU and the ...

Supporters of Germany's Social Democratic Party, SPD, react after first exit polls announced on a party's election event in Potsdam, Germany, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) ...

Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) approved a coalition agreement with the CDU/CSU conservatives, two sources close to the party said on Wednesday, clearing the last hurdle for the formation of a ...

The party of outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholtz ... with 328 of the Bundestag’s 630 seats. The Union and Social Democrats have governed Germany together before: once in the 1960s, and then in ...

Preliminary official results showed the Social Democrats ahead in Germany’s election, with no party winning a decisive majority and Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats facing a ...

On May 2, 2025, four days before parliamentary power was to change hands, outgoing Interior Minister Nancy Faeser from the Social Democratic Party announced that Germany’s domestic spy agency (the BfV ...

The Social Democratic Party's Lars Klingbeil has been tapped to become Germany's next finance minister in the incoming centrist coalition government, replacing Joerg Kukies, the party announced.

The coalition negotiations between the social democratic SPD and conservative right CDU/CSU are going surprisingly smoothly, almost harmoniously. Lars Klingbeil, co-chairman of the SPD, explains ...