Friedrich Merz: Chancellor’s second ballot on Wednesday

After signing the coalition agreement of the new “work coalition” between the CDU, CSU and SPD on Monday, CDU boss Friedrich Merz missed the new Chancellor by six votes on Tuesday.

Merz came up to a total of 310 votes, the minimum was 316 of the 630 members of the Bundestag. With 208 and 120 SPD mandates, CDU/CSU had 328 votes.

The second ballot will probably take place on Wednesday. This is According to information from the Süddeutsche Zeitung The result of advice from the Union and SPD. The parliamentary group leader of Union, SPD, Greens and left -wing negotiates at the moment on a shortening of the deadline, so that the second ballot cannot take place on Friday, but on Wednesday. In addition, it is legally checked whether it would even be possible to choose a second time on Tuesday.

After the missed election, Merz had immediately withdrawn to his office with his closest advisory group, petrified the expression. A little later, SPD boss Lars Klingbeil and Merz ‘woman was added.

Merz wants to compete for the second time

CDU boss Friedrich Merz wants to take on the election as a German Chancellor after failure in the first ballot in a second attempt. “As a coalition-Union and SPD-Friedrich Merz will again propose for the second ballot,” said CDU/CSU parliamentary group leader Jens Spahn in the Bundestag.

Together it was decided to go into a second ballot. When this will take place is still open.

For the first time, designated Chancellor fails in the first ballot

The events on Tuesday are a novelty: After a federal election and successful coalition negotiations, a designated Chancellor failed in the election in the Bundestag.

Both Merz and the designated Vice Chancellor Klingbeil had shown confidently in advance that nothing can go wrong: Merz promised on Tuesday without exception. Klingbeil said about his faction: “I expect that we are complete and I expect everyone to be right.” But that has not occurred.

SPD is full of approval for Merz

The SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag assumes the full approval of its own MPs. No MP was missing, said parliamentary group circles of the German Press Agency.

The parliamentary group had withdrawn after the first ballot and updated the opinion picture to a Chancellor Merz in a counting appeal.

According to information from parliamentary group circles, the SPD chairman and designated Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil said that he did not have the slightest indication that the SPD did not fully. 85 percent of the member vote are an order to the parliamentary group and it fulfills it. You can rely on us. ” It is not yet known who not voted for Merz.

Reactions: AfD is happy about Merz ‘failure

The right -wing populist alternative for Germany (AfD) greeted the failed chancellor election from Merz in the first round. “This shows the weak foundation on the small coalition of the Union and SPD elected by the citizens,” said party leader Alice Weidel on X.

Bernd Baumann, Managing Director of the AfD parliamentary group, also explained to X, Merz was damaged from the outset. He had “received the receipt for all of his machinations in advance, for the enormous choice fraud, which has never existed before”. The AfD has also called for a new election of the Bundestag.

Söder warns of incalculable consequences

The chairman of the Bavarian CSU, Markus Söder, the Sister Party of the CDU, warned of incalculable consequences for Germany and democracy after Merz’s non -Wahk.

«Today’s morning shows that we are in a serious location. A serious location for our country, but also for democracy, »said the Bavarian Prime Minister after a meeting of his cabinet in Munich. “We need stability than ever and could not achieve it today.”

It was the wrong time for games, memo or the settlement of old bills, Söder warned in the direction of that MP of Christian Democrats and SPD, which Merz refused to vote in the first ballot. Everyone has to think about what is at stake for Germany. When choosing the Chancellor, it is also not just a person, but an entire government and urgently needed stability for the whole country.

The “sneering comments of the AfD” showed that the risk of a failure of the new government “can be a harbinger of Weimar, because the consequences are unforeseeable,” said Söder. It is therefore “important that we remain reasonable” and weigh up so that the required majority can exist.

DPA/SME/SÜDDEutsche Zeitung

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