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Incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz suffered an embarrassing setback when he fell short of a majority in an initial vote in the lower house of parliament, potentially delaying his swearing-in as head of government due to take place later on Tuesday.

  • superkret@feddit.orgEnglish
    15·
    5 days ago

    Worst possible outcome would be if in the 2nd vote he gets a majority that shows all of the AfD voted for him, too.
    Especially since he already did a back room deal to get their support in a vote before.

    No one would believe him when he says he didn’t make a deal with them.

    • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
      9·
      5 days ago

      Also see the Thuringen government crisis, where AfD, CDU and FDP voted together to topple the former state minister president in favor of a guy from the FDP that only made it into parliament by a dozen votes.

      So it has precedent that the AfD will vote to enable an unpopular candidate in order to mock the representative democracy.