Friedrich Merz elected Germany’s chancellor after second vote, overcoming earlier setback and forming a coalition with SPD ...

Friedrich Merz secured 325 votes, surpassing the 316 needed for a majority, while 289 deputies opposed his candidacy, with one abstention ...

...And he's made it. In the second round, Friedrich Merz won the parliamentary vote to become the next German chancellor ...

Friedrich Merz has finally succeeded in his bid to become the next German chancellor during a second vote in parliament, hours after he suffered a historic defeat in the first round. The conservative ...

Conservative Merz becomes 10th chancellor after successfully forming coalition with Social Democrats, receiving parliamentary ...

Friedrich Merz’s bid to become Germany’s 10th chancellor has failed in the first round of voting in parliament by six votes.

The setback is a major embarrassment for the leader of the center-right Christian Democrats, less than three months after ...

By Madeline Chambers and Thomas Seythal BERLIN (Reuters) -German conservative leader Friedrich Merz was elected chancellor by ...

Hours after he suffered a historic defeat, Friedrich Merz was elected as German chancellor on Tuesday. The leader of the ...

Friedrich Merz’s unprecedented failure to win election as German chancellor in the first round of voting in parliament has raised doubts about his new government’s ability to carry through on plans to ...

The morning of May 6th was meant to be a routine final stage in the choreography of the handover of power to Friedrich Merz as chancellor, with a vote of MPs in the Bundestag, the lower house of ...

Friedrich Merz lost the first round of votes Tuesday morning in a historic defeat, but ultimately prevailed hours later on ...