{"id":16516,"date":"2025-05-06T15:02:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T15:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/06\/merz-fails-to-be-elected-german-chancellor-in-first-round-of-voting\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T15:02:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T15:02:27","slug":"merz-fails-to-be-elected-german-chancellor-in-first-round-of-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.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\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmac8dd4j003026p82qrh3ml4@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            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\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmac8qb6m00193b6mvo00m1pd@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            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\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmac8qb6m001e3b6m2gqwu3fb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            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\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmac8qb6m001h3b6mz4yupka3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The lower house of parliament, or Bundestag, now has 14 days to elect Merz or another candidate chancellor with an outright majority &#8211; and could attempt another vote already on Tuesday.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmac8qb6m001k3b6me03wmxhv@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            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\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmac8qb6m001n3b6m5daentj9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            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\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmac8q8vc00133b6mbr5ktp3z@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            <em>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/em>    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German conservative leader Friedrich Merz failed to garner the parliamentary majority needed to become chancellor&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}