BERLIN—German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative party scored a clear victory Sunday in the small state of Saarland, dashing hopes among her center-left contenders that the election would ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party won a regional ballot ... Merkel’s Christian Democrats are set to return to power in Saarland, a former coal-and-steel state that borders Luxembourg ...

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (C), Minister President of the state of Saarland and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) top candidate for the state election, cheers during an election party of CDU.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party has comfortably won a state election in Saarland, which is seen as an early litmus test ahead of the national vote in September. Her centre-right Christian ...

The real winners were the upstart Pirate Party ... on Sunday came from people who did not vote in previous elections. Jasmin Maurer, top candidate for the Pirates in Saarland, is seen after ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party easily won elections in the western state of Saarland ... Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union took more than 40 percent to about 30 percent for the ...

This weekend the western German state of Saarland is to elect its new parliament. The Social Democrats stand to upset the Christian Democrats ... keeping the Left Party's Oskar Lafontaine out ...

Friedrich Merz is on track to become Germany's next chancellor after his center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party took roughly 30% of the vote in landmark German elections on Sunday, ...