The CDU party leader was confirmed as Germany's chancellor on Tuesday in a second vote after a tumultuous first round saw him ...

Friedrich Merz has secured a majority in the second round of voting at the German Bundestag, averting a constitutional crisis. Follow DW for more.

Mr. Merz needed two rounds of voting to become chancellor after a surprising defeat in Parliament hours earlier that ...

In a historic first, conservative leader Friedrich Merz 's bid to become Germany's 10th chancellor since World War II failed ...

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

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

The German Bundestag today elected Friedrich Merz as the new Chancellor of Germany following the Christian Democratic Union’s ...

His countrymen, he declares, will have to ‘engage’ with the AfD, ‘factually and on substance.’ ...

Merz had expected to win the votes of at least 316 of the 630 votes in the lower house of parliament, but he was backed by ...

Conservative leader scrapes together just enough votes to claim Germany’s top job — but he’s weakened already.

The conservative leader had been expected to smoothly win the vote to become Germany’s 10th chancellor since World War II.

Germany's lower house of parliament on Tuesday convened for the election of Friedrich Merz as the country's new chancellor.