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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 615

German elections

Friedrich Merz reacts after he was not elected new chancellor in the first voting process at the parliament Bundestag in Berlin, May 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
May 6, 2025, 3:19 pm
Friedrich Merz’s bid to be German chancellor fails in parliament in stunning defeat
Conservative CDU leader loses first-round vote by narrow margin as coalition wobbles; far-right AfD gains ground as Trump officials express support
By STEFANIE DAZIO and Kirsten Grieshaber
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, meets Germany's then-opposition leader, now Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, February 12, 2024. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)
February 24, 2025, 5:31 am
Netanyahu, Sa’ar congratulate German conservatives leader on election victory
Merz is a staunch supporter of Israel; has vowed to remove restrictions on weapons shipments, criticized the ICC arrest warrant against PM
By ToI Staff
Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and his party's main candidate for Chancellor, addresses supporters in Berlin after the first exit polls in the German general elections were announced on TV, February 23, 2025. (Ina Fassbender/AFP)
February 24, 2025, 3:31 am
Conservatives win German vote, far-right comes 2nd with strongest result since WWII
Likely chancellor Merz accuses Trump of being ‘largely indifferent to the fate of Europe’; AfD makes record gains but all other parties have vowed to keep it out of power
By Agencies
Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party candidate for chancellor Alice Weidel, second from left, and other top party officials applaud after German television publishes the first exit polls in the German general elections, during the electoral evening in Berlin, Germany, February 23, 2025. (Soeren Stache / Pool / AFP)
February 23, 2025, 9:20 pm
German exit polls give conservatives lead, as far right has best post-war showing
Chancellor Olaf Scholz bemoans his Social Democrats’ ‘bitter’ result, congratulates Friedrich Merz, whose coalition prospects are uncertain due to ‘fire-wall’ around AfD
By Agencies
Supporters of the far-right AfD party sing the national anthem as they attend an election campaign rally of the party for the upcoming state elections in Suhl, Germany, August 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)
February 23, 2025, 2:33 pm
Germany’s rising far-right AfD is split over Israel. Jews call party ‘a danger’ either way
With the party deeply divided over support of the Jewish state and poised to take 20% of the national vote Sunday, its past — and ongoing — record of antisemitism looms largest
By Bart Schut
A ballot box is sealed with the electoral seal of the German State of Bavaria in Memmelsdorf, Germany, Feb. 23, 2025, during the national election. (Pia Bayer/dpa via AP)
February 23, 2025, 10:31 am
Germans head to voting booths with far-right expected to surge
Polls predict Alternative for Germany party set to become second largest in Bundestag, but other factions vow to boycott it
By Geir Moulson
An election poster showing AfD top candidate for chancellor Alice Weidel is fixed on a lamp pole in Frankfurt, Germany, February 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
February 21, 2025, 5:06 am
German Jews express alarm after JD Vance helps boost far-right party before election
Head of Jewish federation warns ‘Jewish life in Germany would be in danger’ if AfD comes to power, as ‘Holocaust deniers and antisemites feel at home’ in the party
By Toby Axelrod
US tech billionaire and businessman Elon Musk (L) is seen on a large screen as Alice Weidel, co-leader of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, addresses an election campaign rally in Halle, eastern Germany on January 25, 2025. (AFP)
February 16, 2025, 3:47 pm
Germany’s far-right AfD party, shunned by Berlin, basks in Elon Musk’s spotlight
Billionaire Trump confidant insults Chancellor Scholz and lavishes endorsements on far-right party, which commands some 20% in polls, as Germany barrels toward Feb. 23 election
By Frank Zeller and Femke COLBORNE
Yad Vashem director Dani Dayan on January 9, 2025, at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)
January 27, 2025, 12:48 pm
‘Insult to victims of Nazism’: Yad Vashem head condemns Musk speech to German far-right
Dani Dayan says failure to acknowledge Germany’s past is clear danger to its democratic future after prominent Trump ally tells AfD rally there’s too much focus on ‘past guilt’
By ToI Staff
People hold up their cellphones as they protest the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD party, and right-wing extremism in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, January 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
January 25, 2025, 8:57 pm
Thousands in Germany protest far right; Musk at AfD rally laments ‘focus on past guilt’
Demonstrators in Berlin and other cities contend country must unite against rising nationalist party
By AP and ToI Staff
Elon Musk listens as US President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with House Republicans at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Washington DC, November 13, 2024. (Allison Robbert/POOL/AFP)
December 30, 2024, 3:43 pm
Germany says Musk trying to influence election after he backs far-right party
In opinion piece published in major newspaper over weekend, world’s richest person writes Alternative for Germany is ‘last spark of hope’ for country
By Agencies
A supporter hoists a Palestinian flag as Sahra Wagenknecht speaks at a campaign rally in Frankfurt, Germany, May 29, 2024. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)
December 26, 2024, 8:58 am
While extremists rise, German Jews expect pro-Israel voices to prevail in Feb. election
The local community enjoys wider political support than in most other Western European countries, but hostile voices on the far right and left raise concerns for the future
By Bart Schut
An AfD election poster for the European elections reading 'Our country first' is fixed on a pole in Frankfurt, Germany, May 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst), File)
December 3, 2024, 4:35 pm
Far-right German AfD says it will replace radical youth wing ahead of snap elections
Party’s neo-Nazi-linked Junge Alternative youth organization, classified as extremist by intelligence agencies, is set to be replaced, but critics say move is ‘smoke and mirrors’
By AFP
A voter casts a ballot in the ballot box during the state elections in Brandenburg in Forst on September 22, 2024. (Photo by RALF HIRSCHBERGER / AFP)
September 22, 2024, 12:42 pm
Far-right AfD eyes new win in east German state vote
On heels of extremist terror attacks in the country, the anti-immigration party hopes to repeat its recent gains in Thuringia and Saxony, deliver ‘hard blow’ to Scholz’s SPD
By AFP
Co-leader of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Alice Weidel arrives for a press conference in Berlin on September 2, 2024. (Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)
September 3, 2024, 12:10 pm
Scholz urges German parties to avoid far-right AfD after its regional election gains
Chancellor warns extremists are ‘dividing society and ruining our country’s reputation’ after far-right party wins state vote for first time since WWII
By Agencies
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