German parliament expected to meet May 6 to elect Friedrich Merz as the new chancellor

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The Bundestag will proceed on 6 May to the election as Chancellor of the Conservative Friedrich Merz, putting a definitive end to Olaf Scholz's term of office, announced on Monday the lower house of the German Parliament.

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Friedrich Merz will face, as soon as he is appointed Chancellor of Germany at the beginning of May, the same demonic dilemma of other moderate leaders throughout Europe. Faced with the galloping advance of the extreme right, is the antidote a more restrictive immigration policy, in order to respond to the concerns in society that feed these parties? Or the only thing that this policy will achieve is to legitimize these ideologies, with the added…

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The new German government could begin its work on May 6, the leader of the Christian Democrats (CDU) and the most likely chancellor, Friedrich Merz, told the German newspaper Handelsblatt today. The future coalition partners, the conservative CDU/CSU union and the social democrats SPD, reached a coalition agreement this week. The CSU has already confirmed it, but the CDU and SPD have not yet.

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In just under four weeks, Friedrich Merz (CDU) wants to move as a new Chancellor to the Chancellery in Berlin. However, his family should stay outside – "in the literal sense," as Merz reveals in the BILD interview.