Are you already out of the question or are you going to be memorized at 3:15 p.m.?

Friedrich Merz has failed at the 50% hurdle. 630 deputies sit in the 21st German Bundestag. 316 of them have to give their vote to a candidate, who is to be elected at the suggestion of the Federal President, so that he is elected Chancellor. Friedrich Merz and his coalition of honorless consorts counts 328 deputies. A cushion of 12, which should normally suffice...