It is an unprecedented fact in the history of the federal republic, after, against every prognosis, not to collect the necessary majority of 316 votes (it missed six).
The conservative Friedrich Merz has failed in his first attempt to be elected the new Chancellor of Germany in the Lower House of Parliament, a non -published fact in the history of the Federal Republic, after he had not collected the necessary majority of 316 votes and had missed six to have the known as “majority of the Chancellor”.
Against every prediction it has not reached the absolute majority that guarantees the coalition of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the Christian Social Union (CSU) and the Social Democratic Party (SPD).
These three games a total of 328 of the 630 seats of the Bundestag, the Lower House of Parliament, but Merz’s candidacy He only received the support of 310 delegatesSix under the necessary.
The Constitution notes that the bonds has 14 days to choose a Chancellor with absolute majority and, after the deadline, the simple majority is sufficient. If this case was given, the German president, candid-guide Steinmeier, would have to appoint the candidate who was chosen as head of the government or dissolve parliament to call elections in the next seven days.
Source: EITB
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