After far-right election victories last weekend, Germany’s political temperature matched the sweltering 30 degrees encountered by Olaf Scholz at a public meeting in Berlin on Wednesday evening.

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BERLIN — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called the results of two regional elections that saw big wins for the far-right AfD and losses for his coalition "bitter" and urged mainstream parties ...

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The AfD has twice as many votes as the three parties of chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ruling traffic-light coalition combined, and is likely to have a third of seats in both parliaments, giving it ...

Olaf Scholz’s days as Germany’s chancellor are numbered after the far-Right got its best election result since the time of the Nazis. Alternative for Germany (AFD) have won regional elections ...

A new party founded by a prominent leftist also made an immediate impact, while the parties in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's unpopular national government obtained extremely weak results. Projections ...

is a huge blow to Germany’s political center — especially for the three parties of the ruling coalition of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, which suffered significant losses. The AfD came in first in the state ...