Provision results show Germany’s opposition conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party has won the national election, putting leader Friedrich Merz on track to be the next chancellor,
The 69-year-old chairman of the Christian Democratic Union is set to take charge of Europe’s largest economy, which has been struggling in recent years.
Al Jazeera’s Behdad Mahichi reports.
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