The second voting round in the German Parliament To choose the Chancellor to the Cristianodemocrata Friedrich Merz began after 15:30 local time (9:30 Chile) this Tuesday after a first attempt in the morning that ended in failure by not reaching the conservative politician the necessary majority of 316 votes, Something unpublished in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The first vote began shortly after 09:00 local time (3:00 of Chile) and approximately one hour later the president of the lower house or ‘Bundestag’ of Parliament, Julia Klöckner, announced that Merz had not reached six votes the so -called “majority of the chancellor.”
Of a total of 630 deputies that make up the lower house 621. 310 voted in favor of Merz and 307 against. There was also a null vote and three abstentions.
This follows that a total of 18 deputies of the conservative and/or social democrats – all present in the hemicycle – did not cast a favorable vote to Merz, since the conservative block and the social democratic group, the agreed future coalition of government, have 328 seats together, compared to 302 of the opposition.
Given the unpublished situation, Klöckner, suspended the session to give time to the parliamentary groups to deliberate, after which it was agreed, with the support of all the parties represented in the parliamentary arch except the ultra -rightist alternative for Germany (AFD) to celebrate the second rota on Tuesday to choose Merz.
-In the country’s recent history, no chancellor candidate had failed in his first attempt to be elected head of government.
To be chosen in this second round, for which Merz continues to need the absolute majority, that is, 316 votes, the Christian -democratic leader will go to the Bellevue Palace, the official residence of the German president, Frank-Walter Steinmeierwhere he will be officially appointed Tenth Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Then, Merz must return to the lower house to swear the position before the deputies, after which he will officially communicate the composition of his coalition government with the social democrats.
In case of not being chosen, This second round contemplates an unlimited number of votingalthough the requirement is always that the future chancellor receives the approval of the absolute majority.
