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00:00Friedrich Merz is Germany's new chancellor, but there was an unexpected hurdle today.
00:07Tell us a little bit more.
00:09This has been a massively bumpy start, Merz's term as chancellor.
00:16Now, Merz is a former lawyer, so you would think he would be good at negotiations.
00:21But what happened was he couldn't even get enough votes from his own coalition to become chancellor in the first round.
00:28Now, for viewers in the UK or Italy, this might sound quite normal, but this is actually the first time this has ever happened in post-war Germany's political system.
00:39So he's really clearly annoyed some figures within his own coalition group, whether that's from the coalition partners on the centre-left, the Social Democrats, or within his own party,
00:51because he did, of course, work with the far right, or at least vote with them earlier this year.
00:56And that left clearly a nasty taste in some people's mouths.