Merz elected German Chancellor in second-round Bundestag vote
Berlin, May 6 (IANS) Friedrich Merz from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) was elected German Chancellor on Tuesday afternoon’s second-round Bundestag voting. In the first round, Merz failed to secure a required majority in the parliament. A total of 325 members of Germany’s Bundestag, the country’s lower house of parliament, voted for Merz, surpassing the […]
