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Explainer-German Parliament Deals Historic Setback to Would-Be Chancellor Merz - What Now?
Article 63 of Germany's constitution, the Basic Law, says that, to become chancellor, a candidate in the first round needs to win an absolute majority in the Bundestag or lower house. Merz won 310 votes, short of the 316 that constitute an absolute majority in the chamber of 630 members.
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They were bitter enemies, seemingly destined to be perpetually at odds after fighting two devastating world wars less than 30 years apart.
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Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over the Nazis in an intense fight for the German ...
Friedrich Merz secured the top job but only after losing on his first attempt, a surprise that potentially weakens his ...
Across Europe, in forests, fields and beneath old farmland, the remains of German soldiers are still being found, exhumed and ...
At least a dozen members of Merz’s proposed coalition failed to back him in the first vote on Tuesday — despite his coalition ...
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Friedrich Merz’ historic failure to win election as German chancellor in the first round of voting in parliament raises doubts about the new government’s ability to push Europe’s largest economy out o ...
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