Germany’s Friedrich Merz, Chancellor – Falls 1st in National Voting

Historical first, conservative leader Friedrich Merz The proposal of Germany to be 10th chancellor Because I failed six votes in parliament on Tuesday, World War II was expected to be a surprising defeat to win.

Chancellor candidate could not win the first vote since the end of the war. Damage launched a stock market slide

Merz 630 he needed 316 of the vote. He took only 310 votes – a short duration of 328 seats caught by the coalition, which is one of the most delicate postwar. The voting was not immediately clear because the voting was held by secret voting, and it was never known – who was flawless from the Merz camp.

The central-right Christian Democratic Union of the Merz coalition and his Bavarian sister party leads the Christian Public Union. They are connected to the party of Solid Social Democrats, Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The parties now met again to discuss the next step, but it was not known how long the process could last.

Merz, 27 nation trying to buy Selmini, 27 Nalls European Union was held after the collapse of the Scholz government last year and a national election was held in February. Scholz remains a mediator role until a new chancellor is seized, despite the official screw on Monday.

In Germany, the continent has the largest economy and serves as a diplomatic weight. The new Chancellor’s portfolio includes a trade policy of the Trump Management for the rising economy and the rising economy and the rising economy and the increase in the German economy and an increase in the rule of immigration party in Ukraine.

“The world is in confusion. Europe needs a strong German,” the Secretary General of Journalists after the loss of Merzin Carsten Lynnemann. According to him, the second sound must come soon. “Now we can’t wait for the days, we need a quick clarity.”

The underwear of the Bundestag is 14 days to choose a candidate for a majority. Merz can re-work, but other MPs can throw their caps into the ring. There are no restrictions on the number of votes that can be held over a two-week period.

If the Merz or any other candidate cannot obtain this majority within 14 days, the Constitution allows the president to provide the most noise or a new national election as the noise.

Next Foreign Minister Johann Wadepuhl said Merz was confident.

“This is a nervous process, but in a parliamentary democracy, in a liberal country, this unfortunately is one of the scenarios you need to be prepared,” he said.

Winterker Rating wrote a recent biography, “Friedrich Merz: Strong way,” said the events were surprised.

“This shows how fragile of the situation is that the situation is fragile and some MPs are ready to spread uncertainty – it is a warning signal,” said Associated Press.

Resing, when Merz is selected in the second round, everything will be fine and people can forget about this hiccup soon. But “Everything is wide now,” he said.

Alice Weidel, a distant leader of the anti-immigrant alternative to the German party, proved to be a “poor foundation” of the coalition of Merz, Merz. Merz immediately called for resignation and new elections.

AFD is the largest opposition party in Germany’s new parliament after the second place in the national elections in February. Despite its historical earnings, the German political parties have been closed from coalition talks due to the so-called “firewall” against cooperation against cooperation with the distant parties in the end of the war.

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A voting was held on Tuesday, the 80th anniversary of Germany in World War II. The bulletins are being discarded in a restored Reichstag, where the Soviet troops left the Soviet troops were preserved in several parts of the building.

The shadow of the war in Ukraine also laid in voting on Tuesday. Germany is the second largest supplier of military assistance to Ukraine after the United States.

In general, the world’s fourth largest defense of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which examines trends in global military spending. Only the United States, China and Russia are ahead.

Germany has risen to this degree, 100 billion euros ($ 107 billion) for the Armed Forces, and a measure of deputies in 2022.

The country’s defense spending has risen again this year, when the parliament lost serious debt rules of the nation. Because the Trump management threatened by retreating the security support in the continent, it is a movement closely monitored by the rest of Europe.

Along with the spending of defense, the Merz coalition promised to impose economic growth, a harsh approach to migration and long-standing modernization.

The US management has repeatedly bury Germany since President Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony in January. Trump, the German roots, said that past Chancellor Angela Merkel often did not like the first period in the office.

This time, Trump’s lieutenants are on the forefront – Tech billionaire and Trump Ally Elon Musk supported AFD for months. He talked to Weidel in the X. Iidel in the X at the beginning of this year to strengthen his party’s message.

Presidential Assistant JD Vance, in February, met with the “Firewall” and later Weidel during the Munich Security Conference, a movement that German officials are very critical.

Last week, the German Intelligence Service said that AFD has classified as the “right wing extremist”, it has become larger and wider control.

The decision of the Federal office to protect the Constitution was exploded the weekend of the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vance. The German Foreign Ministry has laid back to Rubio after calling the country to return the classification.

The event of the party’s prohibition of the party is a ban on the ban on the ban, only the party that can be held at the request of the federal government through the Federal Constitutional Court.

The Merz did not comment clearly by the decision of the intelligence service.

–Associated Press VideoJournalist Fanny Brodersen and the writer in Frankfurt, Germany, David Mchugh, contributed to this report.