Germany's Merz falls short of majority in vote for chancellor
Germany's Merz falls short of majority in vote for chancellor
The conservative leader is sworn in, having won a parliament vote to become chancellor at the second attempt.
Germany's conservative leader has unexpectedly fallen short of the numbers needed to form a majority in parliament to become chancellor.
Friedrich Merz needed 316 votes in the 630-seat Bundestag but only secured 310, in a significant blow to the Christian Democrat leader, two and a half months after winning Germany's federal elections.
Two and a half months, they weren't joking about slow German bureaucracy š±
Two and a half months, they weren't joking about slow German bureaucracy š±
Bureaucracy has nothing to do with it.
The world just keeps getting worse.
Merz is bad for the working class and for Germany. Every day out of power is a good day for the world.
I still can't believe that we went from 16 years of stillstand under CDU to finally some progress under SPD-GrĆ¼ne-FDP, just for it to be sabotaged by Merz with his stupid lawsuit, which then got FDP into their anal power play and somehow Lindner managed to make his solely Lindner focussed politics even more solely Lindner focussed, and then collectively decided yeah, that government didn't solve world hunger, injustice, climate change and international wars within 3 years, fuck them, let's go back to CDU.
And now Spahn, that fuckface, is Fraktionsvorsitzender. This means de facto he will be chancellor down the road. That AfD ballsucking fucktard. Watching the world burn for personal political gain. (Also looking at you, Amthor.)