Polls opened on Sunday in the German state of Brandenburg, where the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is projected to finish first, aiming to build on recent successes in other eastern ...

The AfD has become the strongest political force in eastern Germany, with the regional election in Brandenburg only one step along its path. For the left-wing environmentalist Greens and the ...

Governor of Brandenburg and Germany's Social Democratic Party, SPD, top candidate for the state election Dietmar Woidke arrives at the party's election event after first exit polls announced in ...

Sunday’s election, in the state of Brandenburg, is the third and final election in a state that was once part of East Germany before the country votes for a new chancellor and federal government ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) looked set to fend off the far right in a state election in Brandenburg on Sunday after trailing behind the Alternative for Germany (AfD ...

Brandenburg is the last state in the east of Germany to vote in regional elections ahead of next year's federal vote. The state has been governed by the Social Democrats since the 90s, when ...

“We have no other choice,” she said. Decision day in Brandenburg comes three weeks after elections in two other eastern states that shattered Germany’s late-summer calm. The AfD came first ...

Simply sign up to the German politics myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Germany’s Social Democrats have won a narrow victory in elections in the eastern state of Brandenburg, an ...

IT WAS NOT just any German regional election. The vote on September 22nd in Brandenburg, one of Germany’s 16 Länder, was the last big statewide election before the federal one next autumn.

A new Jewish synagogue and community center in Potsdam, Germany dedicated on July 5, 2024Monika Skolimowska/picture alliance via Getty Images Germany’s president helped inaugurate a new, multi ...

Cars move towards the Brandenburg Gate on the 17th of June Street in Berlin , Germany, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025, the day after the German election. (AP Photo/Michael Probst) A pink and purple sky reigns ...