{"id":241459,"date":"2025-05-07T00:05:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T23:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/key-moments-as-friedrich-merz-eventually-elected-german-chancellor\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T00:05:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T23:05:27","slug":"key-moments-as-friedrich-merz-eventually-elected-german-chancellor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/key-moments-as-friedrich-merz-eventually-elected-german-chancellor\/","title":{"rendered":"Key moments as Friedrich Merz eventually elected German chancellor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/Em6wvQGCi8U\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Key moments as Friedrich Merz eventually elected German chancellor\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Em6wvQGCi8U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The German parliament has formally elected Friedrich Merz as the country\u2019s 10th chancellor since the second world war, after a humiliating loss in the first round of voting that raised troubling doubts about the stability of the next coalition government.<br \/>\nMerz secured 325 votes in the second round, just above the necessary 316. Earlier in the day 18 unnamed rebels from the newly formed alliance between his conservatives and the Social Democrats had voted to deprive him of the required majority in the secret ballot.<br \/>\n German parliament elects Merz as chancellor in second round of voting<br \/>\n What held up Friedrich Merz\u2019s confirmation as chancellor and what\u2019s next for Germany?<br \/>\n The Guardian view on Germany\u2019s political uncertainty: Merz must recover from this rocky start<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German parliament has formally elected Friedrich Merz as the country\u2019s 10th chancellor since the second world war, after a humiliating loss in the first round of voting that raised troubling doubts about the stability of the next coalition government. Merz secured 325 votes in the second round, just above the necessary 316. 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