- Metz got there in the end. But clearly some backbenchers wanted to send a signal. Wonder if this will come back to haunt the new government at some point.
- Wow! What are the SPD playing at? on.ft.com/434jvx6 Friedrich Merz fails in initial vote to become Germany’s chancellor
- Reminder that they are a partner and not a rubber stamp?
- Indeed. Although most of the chat is the other way: ie. the people who didn’t back him in the first vote were on the right of the CDU!
- I was going to say, there is no way of knowing. Could be the right of the CDU (and/or CSU) as well. Which is exactly what makes it such a bad way to send a signal.
