In the face of a big shock is Germany that lives a political crisis without precedent as the expected, that is, the House to elect chancellor him Friedrich Mertz.
This reversal happened as Friedrich Mertz did not gather the majority caused embarrassment but also nervousness even on the Stock Exchange with the General Index on hearing the non -election of Chancellor to dive.
Mr Mertz failed to gather the required majority of 316 members of a total of 630. They voted 310 (the CDU/CSU-SPD coalition has 328 MPs), by 307, while there were 3 abstentions and one invalid vote. Nine Members were absent from the process.
Following Friedrich Mertz’s failure to be elected Chancellor during the first vote in the federal parliament, the Bundestag now has 14 days to make a new vote, in the attempt to gather 50% +1 of all its members. If a majority is still not achieved, a simple majority of the present Members is sufficient in a third round.
What concerns is the fact that the numbers were normally “coming out”, but the absence of MPs from the future fellowship is perceived as a message.