Friedrich Merz's bid to become Germany's 10th chancellor failed in the first round, missing by six votes. The Bundestag has ...

Germany’s Friedrich Merz has failed to win an initial parliamentary vote that would have confirmed his ascension to ...

Country in chaos as Friedrich Merz loses election to be Chancellor of Germany. The conservative leader was just six votes shy of clearing the first hurdle to being elected in what is a historic first ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz failed to secure enough parliamentary votes to become chancellor on Tuesday in a major blow that threw politics in Europe's largest economy once more into ...

Germany has entered uncharted political waters after Friedrich Merz failed, as designated chancellor, to secure a ...

Today’s vote in the German parliament, the Bundestag, was supposed to be a mere formality: the coalition has 328 representatives, and Merz needed just 316 votes to be confirmed by the 630-member ...

Friedrich Merz did not receive enough votes in the first round of voting in the Bundestag for the future Chancellor of ...

Article 63 of Germany's constitution, the Basic Law, says that, to become chancellor, a candidate in the first round needs to ...

Carsten Brzeski, global head of macro at ING, said Friedrich Merz losing the vote to become chancellor was a "disaster." He said it's unclear whether it was CDU/CSU or SPD voters opposing Merz, given ...

Friedrich Merz is poised to become chancellor at a challenging time for Germany. But in a first round of voting in Parliament ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz’s bid to become Germany’s 10th chancellor has failed in the first round of voting in ...

You have to wait, Mein Herr! Friedrich Merz just lost the vote in parliament to be confirmed as the next German Chancellor.