{"id":129572,"date":"2025-05-07T04:05:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T04:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/merz-approved-as-german-chancellor-news-urix-foreign-news-and-documentaries\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T04:05:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T04:05:36","slug":"merz-approved-as-german-chancellor-news-urix-foreign-news-and-documentaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/merz-approved-as-german-chancellor-news-urix-foreign-news-and-documentaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Merz approved as German Chancellor -news Urix -Foreign News and Documentaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The case summarized Friedrich Merz received the necessary majority in other attempts and was approved on Tuesday afternoon as federal chanter. In the first round, Merz lost the vote. It happened despite the fact that his coalition recently signed a government agreement and actually has a majority on the Bundestag. AFD requires new elections. Before that can happen, the Bundestag has two weeks to appoint new Chancellor. The summary is made by a Ki service from Openai. The content is quality assured by news’s \u200b\u200bjournalists before publishing. After two months of coalition negotiations, Germany has finally got a new chance. Earlier in the day, Friedrich Merz was to be voted on, be taken in the oath and was presented to the chancellor. But already in the first paragraph things went wrong: The CDU leader the necessary votes in the first vote. He lost the vote. Merz got 310 out of 630 votes, but needed 316 for a majority. Thus, the meeting in the Bundestag was interrupted – without a new chancellor being elected. Had really the majority setback happened the day after a new government agreement was signed by a Merz-led coalition. In February, his Christian Democrats (CDU\/CSU) won the election with 28.5 percent of the vote. The CDU\/CSU agreed to enter into a coalition government with the Social Democratic SPD, which is the party to the defeating federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The most important points in the agreement were about stricter immigration policy, increased focus on defense and energy policy. Merz has also promised to contribute to increased European security and independence from the United States. The new coalition has a majority in the Bundestag and the voting was considered a formality. Merz’s first journeys were even planned. – Will aggravate the conflicts now there is excitement about who voted what in the Bundestag. The voting is secret. Whether anyone in their own ranks has changed its mind is currently unclear. The National Assembly emptied quickly after the unexpected result on Tuesday. Photo: Fabrizio Bensch \/ Reuters \/ NTB – that Merz was not chosen in the first round, throws a dark shadow over the future of coalition, says state scientist Philipp Kjer to the Reuters news agency. He works at the University of Hanover. – The relationship between the parties will be seriously damaged because of this. It will aggravate the conflicts that are already bubbling under the surface. Requires new election This is the first time the person who has been appointed channel has lost the vote following successful coalition negotiations. That’s what Deutsche Welle writes. This is happening now so far, Scholz is sitting. The German Constitution does not allow the country to be able to stand without federation. Before it can be announced new elections, the Bundestag has two weeks to appoint new Chancellor. During this time, Merz can re -quiet any time. Thus, a new voting can also happen quite quickly. However, it will not happen on Tuesday, writes Faz newspaper. If a new chancellor is not selected within two weeks, the requirement is lowered that the candidate must get over half of the vote. Then it will hold the most votes. The party AFD requires new elections after the shock vote. – This shows the weak foundation on which the small coalition is based, writes party leader Alice Weidel at X. The party is strongly critical of the new government. They even got a fifth of the votes during the election – and have grown on the polls since. Before it can be announced new elections, the Bundestag has two weeks to appoint new Chancellor. Merkel’s successor Merz is 69 years old and trained business lawyer. He has been a politician since the 1980s, but has never been part of a government before. On the other hand, his party mate Angela Merkel has ruled Germany for 16 years. Merkel himself was present during the failed vote on Tuesday. Photo: Tobias Schwarz \/ AFP \/ NTB Merz took a break from CDU when he lost a power struggle against Merkel in 2002. Then he worked in the private sector for over a decade before returning to politics again. Merkel and Merz have been described as vastly different politicians, even though they come from the same party. Hear the Urix podcast about the election in Germany: Published 06.05.2025, at. 10.16 Updated 07.05.2025, at. 05.41
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