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Before being sworn into office former [[Russian]] President [[Dmitry Medvedev]] posted on [[social media]]:

Before being sworn into office former [[Russian]] President [[Dmitry Medvedev]] posted on [[social media]]:

{{Cquote|Future Chancellor Merz accuses Russia of waging [[war]] in [[Europe]] and targeting Germany with [[arson]], contract killings & [[disinformation]]. You're not in power yet but already lying like [[Goebbels]]. [[Nazi Germany]] attacked us like this from 1941-1945. We know how it ended. Bad start, Fritz! Hope it ends the same way for you.<ref>https://t.me/infodefENGLAND/26845</ref>}}

{{Cquote|Future Chancellor Merz accuses Russia of waging [[war]] in [[Europe]] and targeting Germany with [[arson]], contract killings & [[disinformation]]. You're not in power yet but already lying like [[Goebbels]]. [[Nazi Germany]] attacked us like this from 1941-1945. We know how it ended. Bad start, Fritz! Hope it ends the same way for you.<ref>https://t.me/infodefENGLAND/26845</ref>}}

Merz's bid to become Germany's 10th chancellor since [[World War II]] failed by six votes in parliament. Merz needed a majority of 316 out of 630 votes. He only received 310 votes — well short of the 328 seats held by his [[coalition]] with [[Socialist]]s. Because the vote was held by secret ballot, it was not immediately clear — and might never be known — who had defected from Merz’s camp. Merz had excluded the [[conservative populist]] [[Alternative for Germany]], the largest voting bloc in the [[Bundestag]], from a power sharing agreement choosing instead to form a coalition government of his [[Christian Democratic Union]] with the godless [[Social Democratic Party]] which had only recently been voted out of power. In an unprecedented second ballot, Merz received 325 votes. The Merz regime was not expected to last very long.

Merz's bid to become Germany's 10th chancellor since [[World War II]] failed by six votes in parliament. Merz needed a majority of 316 out of 630 votes. He only received 310 votes — well short of the 328 seats held by his [[coalition]] with [[Socialist]]s. Because the vote was held by secret ballot, it was not immediately clear — and might never be known — who had defected from Merz’s camp. Merz had excluded the [[conservative populist]] [[Alternative for Germany]], the largest voting bloc in the [[Bundestag]], from a power sharing agreement choosing instead to form a coalition government of his so-called "[[Christian Democratic Union]]" with the godless [[Social Democratic Party]] which had only recently been voted out of power. In an unprecedented second ballot, Merz received 325 votes. The Merz regime was not expected to last very long.

==Chancellorship==

==Chancellorship==