GERMANY’S new Chancellor Friedrich Merz has finally been confirmed by the country’s parliament just hours after losing a first humiliating vote.
After a fraught day for the new Chancellor in Berlin, he was voted in as Germany’s new head of government with 325 votes.
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Earlier today, he lost an initial confirmation vote, falling short of the 316 votes needed.
He will now preside over a coalition of his own centre-right CDU/CSU and the centre-left SPD – the part of of outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
The stunning initial setback was the first time in Germany’s postwar history that an incoming Chancellor lost such a vote.
Merz succeeds Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who had held the office since 2021.
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