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

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

In a historic first, conservative leader Friedrich Merz 's bid to become Germany's 10th chancellor since World War II failed ...

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

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 ...

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's bid to become Germany's 10th chancellor has unexpectedly failed in the first round of parliamentary voting.

Merz had expected to win the votes of at least 316 of the 630 votes in the lower house of parliament, but he was backed by ...

The initial shock defeat dealt a heavy blow to Merz, who has vowed to restore stability in Berlin after half a year of ...