“Friedrich Merz will make another attempt to secure parliamentary backing as Germany’s next chancellor on Tuesday after his humiliating shock loss in an initial vote,” Bloomberg reports.
“The conservative leader fell short of a majority earlier in the day in a secret ballot in the Bundestag that was meant to confirm him as the head of a ruling coalition of his center-right CDU/CSU bloc and the center-left Social Democrats.”
“It was the first time since World War II that an incoming chancellor failed to secure enough support from lawmakers on the first attempt, preventing Merz from taking over from outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz as planned and pitching Europe’s biggest economy into uncharted territory.”
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