Germany's lower house of parliament will debate a boost in infrastructure spending and sweeping changes to state borrowing rules to boost defence funding from March 13, two parliamentary sources told Reuters on Thursday.

Germany's Alternative for Germany (AfD) party will file a complaint to the constitutional court next week over plans to raise new debt through a special fund, the Rheinische Post newspaper said on Friday,

Trump hailed the result as a "GREAT DAY FOR GERMANY," while the far-right AfD party that Elon Musk has championed made historic gains.

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has lurched to the right with the once outcast Alternative for Germany (AfD) party now firmly established in German politics.

But the conservatives, SPD and Greens still need the backing of one more party for it to pass the Bundesrat: that could be the Left, its populist splinter the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), the FDP or the Bavarian Free Voters party.

Four candidates are running to be Germany’s next leader: incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Friedrich Merz, current Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, and Alice Weidel, of the far-right AfD.

The first place in the parliamentary elections in Germany is occupied by the opposition bloc of the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU, "Union") of Friedrich Merz, follows from the data of the country's election commission after counting votes in all 299 constituencies.

After Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) won a plurality of seats in federal elections Sunday, party leader Friedrich Merz

The Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) claimed second place, winning 20.8% of the total 630 seats in the Bundestag, Germany’s federal parliament. During its election campaign, the AfD received endorsements from Elon Musk and US Vice President JD Vance.

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, the presumptive next chancellor, has won his constituency in Sunday's parliamentary election, while a number of political heavyweights suffered humiliating defeats.