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Germany’s Friedrich Merz elected chancellor after surprise setback
Khaleej Times
|May 07, 2025
Germany’s conservative leader Friedrich Merz won a nail-biter second vote in parliament Tuesday to become chancellor after he lost the first round in a stunning early setback.
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Merz, 69, scored an absolute majority of 325 against 289 in the second secret vote in the lower house of parliament to become the new leader of Europe’s biggest economy. Merz’s eventual win was bittersweet as the initial defeat — the first such outcome in Germany’s post-war history -- pointed to rumblings of discontent within his uneasy coalition. A Bild daily headline called the outcome of a day of high political drama “the Happy End after the Betrayal”.
Merz takes over at the helm of a coalition between his CDU/CSU alliance and the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) of former chancellor Olaf Scholz.
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