Four candidates were competing for the top chancellor job after the ruling coalition collapsed, triggering a snap election. Olaf Scholz of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) was fighting for re ...

The results almost certainly mean the country’s next chancellor will be Friedrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democrats. Returns posted early Monday morning indicated that he had a path to ...

The results almost certainly mean the country’s next chancellor will be Friedrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democrats. Returns posted early Monday morning indicated that he had a path to ...

The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is poised to win the German election, with Friedrich Merz set to become the new chancellor. The ruling Social Democrats are seeing a decline, while the far ...

Friedrich Merz, who is set to become the new German chancellor, has vowed to "create unity" in Europe as it adjusts to the new Trump administration and Russia's war on Ukraine. Mr Merz's task will ...

Friedrich Merz is likely to become the next German chancellor after his conservative CDU party topped the vote in elections, exit polls project. The stuttering economy and immigration were major ...

Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) narrowly wins national elections, setting the stage for Friedrich Merz to become the next chancellor. World leaders, including US President Trump ...

However, reunification in 1990 allowed Angela Merkel, the East German daughter of a protestant pastor, to enter politics and elbow both Schaeuble and Merz aside on her rise to become chancellor.

It puts Friedrich Merz, a pro-NATO economic liberal, in the seat to become the country's next chancellor. Current chancellor Olaf Scholz could be left in a caretaker role for months as the CDU/CSU ...

Friedrich Merz, the man favored by early exit polls to be Germany’s next chancellor after elections Sunday, is a conservative businessperson who has never been a minister and was forced out of ...

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The victory puts conservative chief Friedrich Merz on track to become the country's next chancellor, succeeding outgoing leader Olaf Scholz. Merz said he is aware of the dimension of the tasks he ...