The conservative leader won the early elections with 28.6% of the votes
The German Parliament will elect the conservative Friedrich Merz as a chancellor on May 6, which will head a coalition government with social democrats, following the early federal elections of February 23.
In the vote, which will take place in the Baixa Chamber of the German Parliament, Friedrich Merz, 69, should be elected by a majority of 630 Bundestag deputies, before the passage of power of social democrat Olaf Scholz, who took office in December 2021.
The leader of the conservatives, who headed in the federal elections a coalition between the Democratic-Christian Union (CSU) and his counterpart Bavarian Social-Christian Union (CSU), will direct a government coalition with the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the outgoing chancellor, Olaf Scholz.
The Union won the elections with 28.6%of the votes, followed by the alternative far-right force for Germany (AFD, with 20.8%), the SPD (16.4%), the green (11.6%) and the left (8.8%).
