CDU leader Friedrich Merz failed to secure a majority in the first round of the chancellor election. His wife and daughters ...

He has now been elected as the new Federal Chancellor on May 6 after all. Friedrich Merz was successful in the second round.

Friedrich Merz is poised to become chancellor at a challenging time for Germany. But in a first round of voting in Parliament ...

Friedrich Merz is set to be elected Germany's new chancellor on Tuesday, as his new administration takes office hoping to ...

For the first time since the founding of the Federal Republic, two rounds of voting were necessary to elect a chancellor.

Germany's designated next chancellor, the conservative Friedrich Merz, is an avowed transatlanticist who now has to face up ...

Germany's conservative new Chancellor Friedrich Merz has pledged to end months of political paralysis and rebuild Berlin's ...

While Angela Merkel was the queen of impulse control – always waiting until the last minute before reacting – Merz is known ...

Friedrich Merz, right, talks to outgoing Chancellor ... values and stressed the importance of family. He met his wife Charlotte, who is now a judge, while he was studying law, and they have ...

First failed vote highlights Germany’s new head of government has a thin majority to deliver an ambitious programme ...

BERLIN (AP) — Conservative leader Friedrich Merz was elected in a second ballot ... He met his wife Charlotte, who is now a judge, while he was studying law, and they have three grown children.