With 325 votes before, the new German Chancellor has overcome an extraordinary mood after unexpected failure in the first attempt.
Conservative Friedrich Merz was chosen on Tuesday in a second new attempt Chancellor of Germany In the first round, he was not able to add the necessary majority of 316 votes for the lower house of the German Parliament, a non -published situation in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Merz has therefore reached it as “majority of the Chancellor” by adding 325 votes forCompared to 289 against, 1 abstinence and 3 zero voices. The conservative block formed by the Cristianodemocrata Union (CDU) and its sister Bavara Social Cristiana Union (CSU) and its coalition partners of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) have 328 seats, so three representatives of their own ranks did not vote for Merz.
The President of the House of Commons or ‘Bundesste’, Julia KlöcknererHe announced that the “deputy Friedrich Merz has reached the necessary majority of at least 316 votes. He was chosen according to section 2 of Article 63 of the federal federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.”
The announcement is accompanied by an applause by most delegates, after which Merz came up and asked by Klöckner if he accepted the elections. “Mrs President, I appreciate trust and accept the choice,” Merz replied, the more applause.
Non -published situation
Hours earlier, in the first attempt to Merz te Merz, have six voices Lac 12 vote To move forward.
In that vote, 310 delegates voted for Merz and 307 against. There has also been a zero voice and three abstentions.
It follows that in total 18 Delegates Of the conservative and/or social -democrats – all present in the Hemicycle – did not give a favorable mood for Merz in the first round.
Given the non -published situation, Klöckner has suspended the session for more than five hours to give the time to parliamentary groups to deliberately lead, after which the CDU and CSU have represented, with the support of all parties that are represented in the parliamentary arch, except for the alternative ultra right for Germany (AfD), this Tuesday the second round.
In the recent history of the country, no chancellor candidate had failed in his first attempt to become the chosen head of the government.
Source: EITB
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