Merz won in a second round of voting after failing to secure an absolute majority in an earlier round.

Friedrich Merz's bid to become Germany's 10th chancellor has unexpectedly failed in the first round of parliamentary voting.

At least a dozen members of Merz’s proposed coalition failed to back him in the first vote on Tuesday — despite his coalition ...

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

Friedrich Merz succeeded yesterday 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 ...

BERLIN (AP) — Conservative leader Friedrich Merz succeeded Tuesday in becoming Germany’s next chancellor, drawing applause ...

Germany has a new chancellor after Friedrich Merz, chairman of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union, was elected on ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz has been elected as Germany’s chancellor — hours after he failed to win the first round in ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz was elected Germany’s new chancellor on Tuesday, but only after a dramatic second-round ...

The win — on his second try — paves the way for him to take charge of Europe’s biggest economy but with his authority ...

Friedrich Merz clinches German chancellorship in a second-round vote, overcoming a historic first-ballot setback.

Euronews takes a look through the top 10 photos of the day, during which CDU leader Friedrich Merz both lost and then won ...