{"id":34742,"date":"2025-05-06T09:46:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T09:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/06\/merz-fails-to-be-elected-german-chancellor-in-first-round-of-voting\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T09:46:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T09:46:17","slug":"merz-fails-to-be-elected-german-chancellor-in-first-round-of-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/06\/merz-fails-to-be-elected-german-chancellor-in-first-round-of-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Merz fails to be elected German chancellor in first round of voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            German conservative leader Friedrich Merz failed to garner the parliamentary majority needed to become chancellor on Tuesday in a first round of voting in an unexpected setback for his new coalition with the center-left Social Democrats.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Merz, 69, who led his CDU\/CSU conservatives to win a federal election in February and since secured a coalition deal with the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), won just 310 votes in the lower house of parliament, Bundestag President Julia Kloeckner said. He needed 316 to secure a majority.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Kloeckner said she was interrupting the parliamentary session so that the parliamentary groups could consult on how to proceed.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The lower house of parliament, or Bundestag, now has 14 days to elect Merz or another candidate chancellor with an outright majority \u2013 and could attempt another vote already on Tuesday.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Merz\u2019s conservatives won national elections in February with 28.5% of the vote but need at least one partner to form a majority government.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            On Monday they signed a coalition deal with the center-left Social Democrats, who won just 16.4%, their worst result in German post-war history.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            <em>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/em>    <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German conservative leader Friedrich Merz failed to garner the parliamentary majority needed to become chancellor on Tuesday in a first round of voting in an unexpected setback for his new coalition with the center-left Social Democrats. Merz, 69, who led his CDU\/CSU conservatives to win a federal election in February and since secured a coalition <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":34743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}