Protesters gather outside the headquarters of the German Christian Democrats , where a banner showing CDU chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz adorns...
Smiling leading members of the far-right Alternative for Germany , including AfD chancellor candidate Alice Weidel, shoot a selfie at the Bundestag...
Friedrich Merz, chancellor candidate and leader of the opposition Christian Democrats , speaks at the Bundestag after a proposal he introduced passed...
Empty seats with posters reading 'Team Merz' of Germany's Christian Democratic Union are pictured during a campaign event at the Ostra-Dome in...
Christian Lindner , leader of Germany's liberal Free Democratic Party and Federal Treasurer of conservative Christian Democratic Union Julia...
This combination created on January 13, 2025 of file pictures shows the top candidates of Germany's main political parties for upcoming general...
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz looks on as Friedrich Merz, leader of the German Christian Democrats , speaks after Scholz gave a government...
Katja Wolf , parliamentary faction leader of the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance , Mario Voigt , parliamentary faction leader of the German Christian...
Jan Redmann, the CDU party's top candidate for Brandenburg's regional state elections addresses the audience during a campaign event with the leader...
The leader of Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union party Friedrich Merz looks up as he tours the venue where the Conservative Christian...
Friedrich Merz, head of the German Christian Democrats , speaks to the media at CDU headquarters after the CDU nominated CDU member Ursula von der...
Christian Democratic Union leader Friedrich Merz, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's State Premier Manuela Schwesig, Bundestag President Baerbel Bas,...
German Christian Democrat Thorsten Frei speaks during a debate at the Bundestag over how to defend democracy on January 18, 2024 in Berlin, Germany....
German Labor Minister Ursula von der Leyen , regional party chairman of their CDU party in the southern German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Thomas...
Workers carry away the giant letters of the German Christian Democrats following a CDU election rally the day before federal elections on September...
Kai Wegner, lead candidate of the German Christian Democrats in yesterday's Berlin state election redo, is greeted with flowers by CDU head Friedrich...
Bundeskanzler und CDU-Vorsitzender Helmut Kohl mit dem CDU-Spitzenkandidaten Uwe Barschel und dem CDU-Landesvorsitzenden Gerhard Stoltenberg bei der...
Das Foto zeigt v.l.n.r. Christian Schmidt , Martin Bangemann , Johannes Rau und Helmut Kohl zu den Wahlen in Hamburg und Rheinland-Pfalz im Jahr 1987.
Armin Laschet, chancellor candidate of the Christian Democrats , gives his speech in reaction to initial results at CDU headquarters in federal...
Members of the German Christian Democrats react to initial results at CDU headquarters in federal parliamentary elections on September 26, 2021 in...
Election campaign billboards showing Christian Lindner , lead candidate of the German Free Democrats , Olaf Scholz , chancellor candidate of the...
Party members of the Christian Democratic Union party react after the first exit poll results for the state's repeat elections at the State...
Germany's Christian Democratic Union CDU leader Friedrich Merz delivers a speech during the Conservative Bavarian CSU Party Congress in Augsburg,...
The leader of Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union party Friedrich Merz looks on as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz addresses delegates...
Leader of Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union party Friedrich Merz reacts on stage during a closed meeting of the conservative sister...
Christian Democratic Union leader and chancellor candidate Armin Laschet puts the CDU logo back on the lectern as he addresses supporters during an...
Armin Laschet, leader of the German Christian Democrats and CDU/CSU, Olaf Scholz of the Social Democrats and Annalena Baerbock of the Greens Party...
Police try to remove activists affiliated with global environmental movement Extinction Rebellion , who are covered in paint and have glued their...
The CDU logo is seen behind an open door on the second day of the Christian Democratic Union party's 33rd congress held online because of the...
People walk past stars of the European Union flag at the launch of the conservatives CDU/CSU European election campaign in Muenster, western Germany...
German Christian Democrat politician Bruno Heck pictured attending a CDU party convention in West Germany in 1969.
German Christian Democrat politician and President of the Bundestag, Kai-Uwe von Hassel pictured attending a CDU party convention in West Germany in...
German Chancellor and leader of the German Christian Democratic Union Angela Merkel, Vice-Chancellor, Finance Minister and leading member of the...
German Interior Minister and Bavarian Christian Social Union politician Horst Seehofer delivers a statement after a meeting of the coalition parties...
Germany's Finance Minister and vice chairman of the Social Democratic Party Olaf Scholz and leader of the Social Democratic Party Andrea Nahles...
German Interior Minister and Bavarian Christian Social Union politician Horst Seehofer delivers a statement ahead of a meeting of the coalition...
German Chancellor and leader of the German Christian Democratic Union Angela Merkel arrives at the last session of the Bundestag before the sumer...
German Chancellor and leader of the German Christian Democratic Union Angela Merkel greets Interior Minister and leader of the CDU sister party, the...
German Interior Minister and leader of the Bavarian Social Union , Horst Seehofer, speaks at the last session of the Bundestag before the sumer break...
German Interior Minister and leader of the Bavarian Social Union , Horst Seehofer, speaks at the last session of the Bundestag before the sumer break...
German Interior Minister and leader of the Bavarian Social Union , Horst Seehofer, prepares to speak at the last session of the Bundestag before the...
German Interior Minister and leader of the Bavarian Social Union , Horst Seehofer, speaks at the last session of the Bundestag before the sumer break...
German Chancellor and leader of the German Christian Democratic Union Angela Merkel and Interior Minister and leader of the CDU sister party, the...
German Chancellor and leader of the German Christian Democratic Union Angela Merkel and Interior Minister and leader of the CDU sister party, the...
German Chancellor and leader of the German Christian Democratic Union Angela Merkel and Interior Minister and leader of the CDU sister party, the...
German Finance Minister and Vice-Chancellor Olaf Scholz, leader of the Social Democratic Party Andrea Nahles and German Chancellor and leader of the...
German Chancellor and leader of the German Chistian Democrats Angela Merkel attends a session of the Bundestag the day after she and German Interior...
German Chancellor and leader of the German Chistian Democrats Angela Merkel and German Interior Minister and leader of the Bavarian Social Union...
German Chancellor and leader of the Christian Democratic Union Angela Merkel watches as German Interior Minister and leader of the Bavarian Christian...
German Chancellor and leader of the Christian Democratic Union Angela Merkel and German Interior Minister and leader of the Bavarian Christian Social...
German Chancellor and leader of the Christian Democratic Union Angela Merkel and German Interior Minister and leader of the Bavarian Christian Social...
German Chancellor and leader of the Christian Democratic Union Angela Merkel and German Interior Minister and leader of the Bavarian Christian Social...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives at the Chancellery for a coalition meeting after she met her Interior minister at the German Christian...
German Interior Minister and leader of the Bavarian Christian Social Union Horst Seehofer gets into his car as he leaves the German Christian...
German Interior Minister and leader of the Bavarian Christian Social Union Horst Seehofer leaves the German Christian Democrats headquarters after a...
German Interior Minister and leader of the Bavarian Christian Social Union Horst Seehofer leaves the German Christian Democrats headquarters after a...
German Interior Minister and leader of the Bavarian Christian Social Union Horst Seehofer and his bodyguards leave the German Christian Democrats...