NARRATIVE – The conservative leader had to wait a second ballot to be elected. A first in the history of the Federal Republic.
For the daily life BildFriedrich Merz is a student who missed his partial exams. The conservative candidate was finally drafted and elected Tuesday, January 6 at the Bundestag, tenth chancellor of the German Federal Republic after a second unpublished ballot. Ten votes in advance to succeed Olaf Scholz, who himself had to dissolve his government before term. A sufficient gap to access the supreme judiciary, but too reduced to claim to exercise it in all serenity.
« I swear ” of “Consecrate my forces to the good of the German people and to fulfill my duties with conscience and to be fair to all”, He said, taking an oath before the President of the Republic, Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Either article 56 of the constitution he had dreamed for a long time to embody. At 69, Friedrich Merz passes more than ever for a survivor of German politics.
Prevented by Angela Merkel, who was her main enemy at the CDU, the curator …
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