CDU Chair Friedrich Merz Becomes Germany's Chancellor

Friedrich Merz secures the majority in the second round of voting, becoming Germany's new chancellor.

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00:00In Germany, Friedrich Mertz has secured enough support in the country's legislature to become

00:05the chancellor.

00:07After his Christian Democratic Union won national elections in February, it formed a coalition

00:13with the Social Democratic Party.

00:16They initially failed to gain a majority in the Bundestag, but succeeded in the second

00:20round of voting.

00:22Mertz has never held a high-level government position.

00:25He seeks to move away from the centrist legacy of former Chancellor Merkel, particularly

00:30in her open-door refugee policy.