Friedrich Merz will be the next chancellor of Germany after his Christian Democrats (CDU), along with its Bavarian sister party (CSU), won Sunday’s federal election with 28.6 percent, setting up a likely Grand Coalition with the Social Democrats and a continuation of governance from the country’s legacy parties. The election looked set to deliver a […]
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