Vice Chairman of the German Bundestag Omid Nuripour has called on new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to agree on the ...

First failed vote highlights Germany’s new head of government has a thin majority to deliver an ambitious programme ...

Friedrich Merz’s own coalition partners tried sabotaging his chancellorship. And though he ended up being elected just a few ...

Friedrich Merz succeeded in his bid to become the next German chancellor during a second vote in parliament, hours after he ...

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

Social Democratic coalition, Friedrich Merz, suffered a shock defeat Tuesday in his bid to become chancellor after failing to ...

Friedrich Merz fails to secure chancellor majority in Bundestag, delaying Germany’s new government formation and triggering ...

Mr Merz’s commitment to restoring a long-absent German voice to European and international debates is not in doubt, and he ...

It was the first time in Germany’s postwar history that a chancellor-designate has failed to win an absolute majority.

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

Three years ago Merz returned from the political wilderness to secure the leadership of the centre-right Christian Democratic ...