Klingbeil, Dobrindt, Wadephul: Merz regulates hierarchy in the new cabinet

After an obstacle race in the Bundestag, the newly sworn ministers under Chancellor Merz still meet for a late evening working session. In addition to the cut-off of the departments, it is also about the official order of ministries.

Scholz's Social Democrats were the leading party in the so-called traffic light coalition, which suffered a fiasco in the February elections. The SPD ended up with only 120 seats, the Greens lost 33, and Christian Lindner's FPD did not even pass the threshold. GERMAN Social Democrats (SPD) have published the list of their ministers in the new government, ahead of a vote in the Bundestag that is expected to formally confirm the coalition led by F…