Exactly six months after the coalition of three parts of Olaf Scholz IMPOS TO Friedrich Merz, a conservative Christian Democrat, will swear as the next German chancellor on Tuesday.
The swear occurs after less than two months of negotiation between the Christian Democratic Union, or CDU, which came first with 28.5 percent of the votes, and the titular social democrats, known as SPD, which comes with only 16.5.
Mr. Merz, 69, who played a break of a decade of politics after he was approved in favor of Angela Merkel, has never held any position by the Government. A talented and attractive speaker has made his ambition to return to Germany to a leadership role in Europe.
What challenges does the new government face?
Germany is likely at its most dangerous time since the reunification 35 years ago.
Even before President Trump announced tariffs, Germany’s economy was in depression. China, once a booming market for exports, has lost its taste for German luxury cars and other German exports. Due to the sanctions to Russian gas, energy is exensive. And labor costs are higher than average, while public infrastructure is failing.
Germany also seems at risk of losing American security guarantees that, before the large -scale invasion of Russia of Ukraine, it allowed him to invest relatively little in defense.
In addition to all, the AFD of the extreme right, which the German domestic intelligence service labeled “extremist” last week, is emerging in the surveys and neck and neck of Mr. Merz with Mr. Merz.
Who will help Merz direct the country?
Some of Mr. Merz’s cabinet options have surprised political observers.
Merz has taken advantage of several people from the private sector, an extremely rare decision for the Federal Government of Germany. Most people for minister work have a leg in high -level policy for years.
Karsten Wildberger, for example, directed Media Marketsaturn, the largest electronic retailer in Germany, until this year. Now he will try to help Germany to the 21st century as his Prime Minister of Digitalization and Modernization.
Katherina Reiche, who will be the first woman to lead the Ministry of Economy, directed a large regional electricity supplier.
According to the reports, both have tasks of large salary cuts to execute their mouses.
Mr. Merz appointed only seven of the 17 ministers who will swear under him. A sister Bávara party, the Christian Social Union, called Tres, and the SPD appointed Seven.
Boris Pistorius, the very popular Social Democratic Minister, will remain in his position, which is also strange in German politics. Lars Klingbeil, head of the Social Democrats, will obtain the position of Vice Chancellor and Minister of Finance.
But the SPD also has a series of younger and less known politicians to fill their ministries.
Verena Hubertz, who is 37 years old and co -founded Kitchen Stories, a kitchen platform, will direct the Ministry of Housing.
His Jun, a professor of political science and an enthusiastic observer of Berlin’s policy, said that although some of the options taken by the parties were unorthodox, both tried to fulfill the promise of a political change.
“The parties want to present new faces, and that has finally led to one or two surprises in the selection,” he said, “but they also have a common thing: loyalty to their respective leaders of the party.”
Two of the ministers, Karin Prien and Alabali-Dradovan, were not born in Germany, which is unusual in German politics. In addition, Mrs. Prien, who belongs to the progressive wing of the CDU and will supervise education, is Jewish, another first in postwar Germany. Some of their ancestors fled from the Nazis moving to the Netherlands in the 1930s.
How does the damn?
Walking in a chancellor in Germany is a parliamentary procedure that is associated with much less bomb, but much more displacement, than its American equivalent.
First, Mr. Merz must be elected Chancellor for the 630 -seat Parliament. The coalition has 360 of those seats. It is not a large majority, but since there is no reason for anyone to deviate from the lines of the party, the simple majority necessary in the first round is expected to win.
Mr. Merz will be taken to a mile through Tiergarten to the presidential residence, Schloss Bellevue, where President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will deliver his nomination document. Then he will return to be sworn by the president of the newly formed Parliament.
That procedure is repeated when Mr. Merz officially announces his cabinet. The 17 ministers will travel to the President for their documents before returning to sworn in Parliament.
How likely this government lasts?
The possibilities are better this time.
Mr. Scholz had to make the very different parties lasting his mandate. And two of them, the greens and the liberal free democratic party, had opposite ideas about a series of themes, the key is spending.
It is more likely that this coalition remains for another reason: this time, its members may feel that it is no other option.
With the game growing, an early election could bring it more seats, which makes the government more difficult. Whatever your differences in politics, none of the parties wants that.
