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Friedrich Merz Becomes Germany’s Leader After Unexpected Day of Drama
Mr. Merz needed two rounds of voting to become chancellor after a surprising defeat in Parliament hours earlier that ...
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Friedrich Merz elected new Chancellor of Germany
The German Bundestag today elected Friedrich Merz as the new Chancellor of Germany following the Christian Democratic Union’s ...
Friedrich Merz wins on second ballot to become Germany’s chancellor
Friedrich Merz has succeeded in his bid to become the next German chancellor during a second vote in parliament, hours after ...
Germany’s Friedrich Merz named chancellor after parliamentary setback
Merz' appointment ends six months of political deadlock in the country after the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ...
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Friedrich Merz, After Acceding to Chancellor of Germany on a Second Vote, Has To Deal With Resurgent Right
His countrymen, he declares, will have to ‘engage’ with the AfD, ‘factually and on substance.’ ...
Who is Friedrich Merz, the man who has been elected Germany's next chancellor?
Friedrich Merz has been elected as Germany's 10th post-World War II chancellor, the culmination of a long political career ...
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German lawmakers confirm Friedrich Merz as chancellor in a second vote
BERLIN — Friedrich Merz won lawmakers' approval to ... embarrassment for the leader of Merz's center-right Christian Democratic Union of Germany party, less than three months after winning ...
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Germany’s Friedrich Merz named chancellor after parliamentary setback
BERLIN — Friedrich Merz was elected ... leader of the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), was sworn in to office as the fifth chancellor of a reunified Germany on Tuesday evening.