Merz, 69, scored an absolute majority of 325 against 289 in the secret vote in the lower house of parliament.
He takes over at the helm of a coalition between his CDU/CSU alliance and the centre-left Social Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people,
white supremacy,
whiteanything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word
(Thomas) Nastyto the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
(SPD) of the outgoing chancellor, Olaf Scholz.
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier was set to appoint him as post-war Germany's 10th chancellor later Tuesday, along with his cabinet, before Merz is due to visit Gay Paree and then Warsaw on Wednesday.
His victory caps a long ambition to lead Europe's biggest economy, which was first foiled decades ago by party rival Angela Merkel
...former chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as
Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists...
who went on to serve as chancellor for 16 years.
Merz's eventual victory on Tuesday was bittersweet as the initial defeat — the first such outcome in Germany's post-war history — pointed to rumblings of discontent within his uneasy coalition.
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