BERLIN (AP) — Conservative leader Friedrich Merz succeeded Tuesday in becoming Germany’s next chancellor, drawing applause ...

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

Friedrich Merz has secured a majority in the second round of voting at the German Bundestag, averting a constitutional crisis ...

Friedrich Merz receives 325 votes in the second round of voting, hours after a shock defeat in the first ballot.

If Merz eventually goes on to become chancellor, the 69-year-old head of the CDU/CSU alliance would take over from Scholz, ...

Friedrich Merz, a conservative Christian Democrat, became Germany’s next chancellor after a surprising setback in parliament ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz has been elected as Germany’s chancellor — hours after he failed to win the first round in parliament in a historic defeat. Mr Merz, 69, who succeeds Olaf Scholz, ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz was elected in a second ballot by lawmakers as post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor ...

The conservative leader needed a majority of 316 out of 630 votes in a secret ballot but received 310, unexpectedly falling ...

No German chancellor had ever failed to win a first round ballot for leader - but Friedrich Merz has become the first.