Germany in turmoil as Merz fails in chancellor bid: What happens next?

[ad_1] ‘Merz should step aside’: AfD demands fresh elections after failed chancellor vote Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) on Tuesday demanded new general elections after conservative leader Friedrich Merz failed to win an outright majority in parliament to become chancellor.Merz secured 310 of the 630 ballots cast in the Bundestag (Germany’s federal parliament), falling […]

German parliament to vote on Merz as new chancellor on May 6 | World News

[ad_1] German lawmakers will gather in early May to elect Friedrich Merz as chancellor after his conservative bloc sealed a coalition agreement with the main centre-left party, the Bundestag said Monday. Both steps were expected to be a formality after Merz’s conservative bloc, the CDU/CSU, and his future governing partners, the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), […]