Meers failed to be elected German Chancellor in First Congress vote | Election News
In the first round of voting, Germany's conservative leader scored six out of six votes, and he was expected to win.
Friedrich Merz, the leader of the German conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), failed to become the country's tenth principal, and lost six votes in the first round of the parliament.
Merz is widely expected to win a parliamentary vote, requiring 316 votes in a secret vote held on Tuesday, but he only received 310 votes.
Failure to win the required majority means that the parties will now reorganize and discuss the next step.
This embarrassed Meers because there was no German Chancellor candidate who won an absolute majority in the first round of voting.
The German Parliament's lower house of parliament has 14 days to elect the Prime Minister, whether it's Melz or other candidates, they need a full majority.
National Referendum
The conservative coalition of the CDU and the Christian Social Union (CSU), led by Merz, made a poll in February with 28.5% of the vote, but it still requires at least one joint partner to form a majority government.
CDU/CSU reached a deal with the Centre-Left Social Democrats (SPD) on Monday that won 16.4% of the deal in elections following the collapse of the Olaf Scholz administration last year.
If the vote is to be passed, the CDU/CSU-SPD alliance will have a slim majority, with the federal totaling only 328 seats, totaling 630.
Al Jazeera's Dominic Kane said in a Berlin report that 10 members of the CDU/CSU and SPD group failed to vote, three abstained, and several voted against Melz “even though their party formally guided.”
This is because the newly formed coalition sets ambitious goals, including stimulating economic growth, increasing defense spending and tightening immigration policies in response to the German far-right alternative (AFD), which ranked second in the vote.
“Serious Crisis”
Uli Brueckner, a professor of political science at Berlin-based Stanford University, told Al Jazeera that the AFD will “celebrate” the results of the vote.
“We have seen fake news and manipulations from the Western democratic enemies, and it is surprising that the current administration is currently supporting the enemy of the US Department of Defense,” he said.
Bruckner suggested that the United States, Russia and authoritarian regimes might want to see instability in Germany.
“It's not only a confusion, where plural societies express different views on the alliance agreement, but it's a serious legal crisis,” he said.
The CDU and SPD have ruled in Germany in the past, most recently three of the four term of former Prime Minister Angela Merkel, who went from 2005 to 2021.