Merz won in a second round of voting after failing to secure an absolute majority in an earlier round.

Mr. Merz needed two rounds of voting to become chancellor after a surprising defeat in Parliament hours earlier that ...

The win — on his second try — paves the way for him to take charge of Europe’s biggest economy but with his authority ...

For the first time since the founding of the Federal Republic, two rounds of voting were necessary to elect a chancellor.

At least a dozen members of Merz’s proposed coalition failed to back him in the first vote on Tuesday — despite his coalition ...

Friedrich Merz has been elected as Germany's 10th post-World War II chancellor, the culmination of a long political career ...

Friedrich Merz is Germany's new head of government. However, he needed an unprecedented second vote to secure the necessary ...

BERLIN (AP) — Friedrich Merz succeeded Tuesday in his bid to become the next German chancellor during a second vote in ...

Friedrich Merz succeeded Tuesday in his bid to become the next German chancellor during a second vote in parliament, hours ...

Merz finally succeeded in his bid to become the next German chancellor during a second vote in parliament today.