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 ...

April 9 (UPI) --Details on a political deal to form a new German coalition government will be presented Wednesday by the conservative Christian Democratic ... Social Democratic Party of Germany.

Though voters gave rightist parties a majority, Friedrich Merz’s conservative Christian Democrats are teaming up with the Social Democratic ... toward moving the party toward being a logical ...

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 primary opposition to the coalition between the CDU and the center-left Social Democratic Party of Germany. With the backing of one in five German voters, the AfD cannot be lightly dismissed.

Friedrich Merz was elected chancellor of Germany after ... deal involving his party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU); its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU); and the ...

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 ...