Bundestag confirmed Friedrich Merz as Germany's new chancellor in a successful second vote after he unexpectedly lost an ...

Mr. Merz needed two rounds of voting to become chancellor after a surprising defeat in Parliament hours earlier that ...

Merz received 325 votes in favor, surpassing the 316 required. According to The Guardian, 289 lawmakers voted against, one ...

First failed vote highlights Germany’s new head of government has a thin majority to deliver an ambitious programme ...

For the first time since the founding of the Federal Republic, two rounds of voting were necessary to elect a chancellor.

Friedrich Merz succeeded in his bid to become the next German chancellor during a second vote in parliament, hours after he ...

Social Democratic coalition, Friedrich Merz, suffered a shock defeat Tuesday in his bid to become chancellor after failing to ...

Vice Chairman of the German Bundestag Omid Nuripour has called on new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to agree on the ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz failed to secure enough parliamentary votes to become chancellor in a major blow.

His countrymen, he declares, will have to ‘engage’ with the AfD, ‘factually and on substance.’ ...

Three years ago Merz returned from the political wilderness to secure the leadership of the centre-right Christian Democratic ...

Friedrich Merz fails to secure chancellor majority in Bundestag, delaying Germany’s new government formation and triggering ...