Bundestag Losings Friedrich Merz on the first day

The day began to be a distinction of Fredchich Mirz’s political coronation in a festive mood.

It overlooks the crowded parliament hall, the chapery of the future, the guests and the family, sat in the higher Tribunes in Bundesag, wearing the best Sunday to see the election of the Christian Democrat as a consultant in Germany’s tenth in Germany after the war.

Among the attendees, the former consultant – and long Mirz Competition – Angela Merkel sat in chatting with outgoing Finance Minister Juerg Cooks and Future Economy Minister Catherina Rish. Mirz’s wife, Charlotte, waved by my two daughters, and she smiled.

Then the President of Bundestag Julias Clokner presented the amazing news: Mirz did not declare the required majority-the first in the history of the Federal Republic, which is 80 years old. The conservative leader, who was said to have been driving 10 liters of beer to Berlin from his home in Sauerland to celebrate his office, after six votes from the 316 required despite his alliance carrying 328 seats.

With the audience leaving in a shock, Mirz and his partner in the coalition of Lars Klin Gylklu, the co -leader of the Social Democrats and the vice -president of the future, retreated to their quarters to evaluate them. The angry efforts began to find the defectors and mobilize the numbers to reschedule the second round of the vote. A few hours later, Mirz He got the majority he needs.

But the episode shattered something that the newly elected advisers get: power. The vote was the most obvious example of the challenge that Mirz would face throughout his term. The 69 -year -old consultant is on a mission to reform the largest economy in Europe at a time political Economic turmoil-depends on the kind parliamentary majority to do so.

“Historical history is a completely historical history,” said political scientist Andrea Rommel in Bondstag. “Nobody expects this.”

“It shows the extent of the entire coalition’s fragility,” added Römmele. “He weakened him, just as everyone watches in Europe and is waiting for Germany.”

There could be a few worse for the new coalition after an intensive election cycle for a period of six months, which was supposed to draw a line under years of quarrels under the outgoing Olaf Scholz coalition, which collapsed in November.

Alice Wadel, the co -leader of the far -right alternative to Germany, and her faction reveals discomfort. She called for new elections between voting rounds, while her co -captain, Tino Chrupalla, announced: “It is a good day for Germany.”

With a total of 328 seats in Parliament, the Mirz alliance between CDU, and the Bavarian brother party owns CSU and SPD 13 seats.

With no way to identify dissidents in a secret poll, but with a few missing votes, Merz and Klingbeil decided that their best choice was to reschedule the vote on the same day while all the deputies were in the capital. Their hope: Those who used their vote as a protest had realized the danger of their options by that time.

Rumors spread from CDU angles that the defectors were MPS SPD not satisfied with Klingbeil. They did not agree with the dates of the Council of Ministers the previous day, and many were angry at its rapid movement, following the worst electoral results of SPD since 1887, to support its authority by seizing the leadership of the parliamentary gathering of his party – or so the theory went.

But SPD MPS refused to blame. They referred to signs of general irritation in Mirz within his conservative bloc after he suddenly converted to alleviating the maximum constitutional borrowing in the country and a 1 -Treer spending package for military structure and infrastructure.

“Mirz has offended many people. Klingil has also offended many people,” said Rommel.

A senior CDU, who has lunch with employees in a Bundestag restaurant while waiting anxious to see if the second vote can be made on Tuesday, he has no way to see if CDU-CSU members voted against Mirz.

He said, “I would have said that we were united.” “But the Democratic Democratic Party may have said the same. We will never discover because it was a secret poll.”

The obstacle comes at a time when Germany faces the external and interior challenges that undermine the foundations of the Renaissance in the country after the Second World War.

For a long time in the Atlantic Ocean, Mirz must deal with an unreliable and increasingly increasingly increasingly American administration in the shadow of Donald Trump seeking to reduce its defensive commitment to Europe, which was the basis for post -war security in Germany.

Trump’s threat to impose commercial tariffs on European Union goods may direct the nation to export to a decrease this year, after several years of recession.

The stopping was a humiliating scene of any procedure. The outgoing SPD counselor, who received a traditional farewell from the copper Bundeswehr Band in the previous evening, has returned to the counselor.

A series of celebrations scheduled for Tuesday afternoon was suspended for delivery between the old and new ministers, and a planned trip to visit French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris the next day was suspicious.

At home, Mirz issued his alliance with the Democratic Democratic Party in the last major parties’ attempt to stop the right of the far -right AFD. The party, which ranked second in the February elections with more than five votes, is the neck and neck in the ballot boxes with CDU and aims to finish the first position in the upcoming elections, scheduled for 2029.

But some analysts sought to reduce the importance of short drama. In 1949, CDU President Conrad Adenaur, a consultant in Parliament, was elected by one vote, as Helmut Cole, another CDU adviser, was in 1994.

“It is once, a few deputies wanted to send a signal,” said Andreas Bush, Professor of Political Science at the University of Gottingin. “Mirz has the support of his alliance.”

“The events of the day were an invitation to wake up, but it does not cast a permanent shadow of the Mirz administration,” said Armen Steinbach, a professor at the Paris -based Business Administration, said. “Voters forget. If the government succeeds, no one will remember this.”

He added: “The message to the Merz is that he must become a unified figure, less attractive than it was in the past.”