AFTER A SECOND vote in parliament today Friedricch Merz finally succeeded in his bid to become the next German chancellor, ...

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

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

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

GERMANY’S new Chancellor Friedrich Merz has finally been confirmed by the country’s parliament just hours after losing a ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz ‘s bid to become Germany ‘s 10th chancellor since the second World War failed in the first ...

Merz, who contested the election highlighting the issue of irregular migration, secured 208 seats with his CDU/CDS alliance ...

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

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

Mr Merz seeks to take the helm of the European Union’ s most populous member after outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ...

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

He also thanked outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz for his support towards strengthening ties between Singapore and Germany.