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And yet it is anything but guaranteed how party chairman Friedrich Merz can govern a country in which the far-right Alternative for Germany comes second, polarization hits record levels, and ...

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Top German politicians will meet for a final TV debate on the state of the country on Thursday. Follow DW for more on the upcoming election. Voters in Germany go to the polls on Sunday to elect a new ...

Germans will greet the next government with the stoniest of scepticism. Thorsten Faas, a political scientist at the Free ...