Berlin - Being Germany's 10th principal in the bid for the first Conservative leader Friedrich Merz since World War II, a stunning defeat in the first round of votes in parliament since World War II, as he was widely expected to win smoothly.

The prime minister's candidate has never won the first vote since the war ended. Merz needs 316 of 630 votes in a secret vote. He only won 310 votes, far from the 328 seats his league owns.

The parties are now going to reorganize and discuss the next step, but it is not clear how long the process may take.

The House of Commons (called the federal government) has an absolute majority of candidates for the election of 14 days. Meles can run again, but other MPs can wear hats as well. There is no limit on the number of votes that can be held during a two-week period.

If Merz or any other candidate fails to get a majority in 14 days, the constitution allows the president to appoint candidates who win the most votes, or disband the government and hold a new national election.

Merz seeks to take over the most populous member of the 27 countries after the country's current Prime Minister Olaf Scholz went bankrupt last year.

Germany has the largest economy on the mainland and serves as a diplomatic heavyweight. Melz's portfolio will include the Ukrainian war and the Trump administration's trade policy on domestic issues, such as the stagnation of the economy and the far-right, the rise of the anti-immigrant party.

Tuesday's vote was held on the eve of the 80th anniversary of Germany's unconditional surrender in World War II. The votes were secret and voted in the restored Capitol, with graffiti left by Soviet forces preserved at multiple locations in the building.

Melz's failure in the vote adds to future challenges - those elected to prime minister will face future problems with far-right, anti-immigrant alternatives about German parties, also known as the AFD. The mainstream German parties refused to cooperate with it, citing that they have insisted on opposing the so-called "firewall" of cooperation with extreme parties since the end of the war.

Last week, the German Domestic Intelligence Agency said it had classified the AFD as a "right-wing extremist" group, which ranked second in the national elections in February, thus receiving greater and wider surveillance.

The German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution described the party as a threat to the country's democratic order, saying it "ignores human dignity" and, in particular, "continuous incitement" to refugees and immigrants.

The federal office's decision prompted U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and U.S. Vice President JD Vance to fight back over the weekend. The German Foreign Ministry called on the country to revoke the classification and defeated it in Rubio.

The measures of the Domestic Intelligence Agency are not equivalent to prohibiting the party's measures, which can only be carried out through the request of the two parliaments of the parliament or the federal government through the Federal Constitutional Court.

Myers has not publicly commented on the intelligence department’s decision.

Germany's new alliance was led by Melz's Central Christian Democratic League and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, and joined Scholz's party by the central left-wing Social Democrats. All three parties have previously approved alliance agreements.

The alliance aims to stimulate economic growth, increase defense spending, adopt a tougher immigration approach and catch up with long-neglected modernization.

The Alliance and Social Democrats had previously ruled Germany together in the 1960s, before leading the country from 2005 to 2021 during four terms of former Prime Minister Angela Merkel.

Merz announced last month its proposed government team, which included senior MP Johann Wadephul as Foreign Secretary, the last position the CDU held in the 1960s.