To the office stumbled: Can Merz chancellor?

Friedrich Merz is chancellor. But the start was rather bumpy. Juso-chief Türmer also sees problems in the future. A controversial issue: immigration.

The political scientist Ulrich Schlie sees Friedrich Merz as starting the chancellorship with a heavy burden. He considers that so many members of parliament had already eschewed out at the beginning to be dangerous.

The tenth chairman of the CDU of Germany is now also the tenth chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. Who is Friedrich Merz? And what does he stand for? Friedrich Merz, born in 1955, comes from the Sauerland and lives there to this day. He is a three-time father and seven-fold grandfather, a family man through and through, married for almost 45 years. He met his wife Charlotte Merz in 1980 at a student party in Bonn, where they studied l…

Friedrich Merz becomes chancellor, but the way there was not easy. CDU politicians from the region react to his failure in the first ballot.