Chancellor on pause: Bundestag stings Friedrich Merz on day one | Financial Times 06.05.2025
- Armin Steinbach
- May 5, 2025
- 1 min read
First failed vote highlights Germany’s new head of government has a thin majority to deliver an ambitious programme
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Today’s events have been a wake-up call, but it does not cast a lasting shadow over the Merz administration,” said Armin Steinbach, professor at Paris-based business school HEC. “Voters forget. If the government is successful, no one will remember this.”
He added: “The message to Merz is that he must become a unifying figure, less polarising than in the past.”
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