Merz huddling with allies after failed bid to become chancellor

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2025-05-06

Berlin (dpa) - German conservative leader Friedrich Merz has held consultations with his closest allies, after he failed to be elected the country's new chancellor in a first round of voting in parliament. The leader of the Social Democrats, Lars Klingbeil, the junior partner in the new coalition forged following February's federal elections, joined Merz in his office in the lower house, as did interior-minister-in-waiting Alexander Dobrindt. Mer......

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