Conservative leader Friedrich Merz has won a parliament vote to become Germany’s next chancellor at the second attempt. He initially fell six votes short of the majority he needed on Tuesday morning – ‘a significant blow to his prestige and an unprecedented failure in post-war German history.’
His coalition with the Social Democrats should have had enough seats in parliament from the start, with 328 MPs in total, but it is thought 18 of them dissented during the first vote.
He was elected with the frustratingly trapped Mars opposition Pluto still in place. At the morning vote which he lost around 10.45am it was sitting exactly with Pluto on the Descendant and Mars on the Ascendant for an infuriating result. By circa 4.28pm for the second vote it had moved to the 5th/11th house which is a minor improvement; though Sun in the 8th hints at slow progress with Saturn, Scheat, Neptune on the Descendant hinting at disappointment in partnerships both internal and external since the Germany/EU relationship looks very troubled ahead.
He takes over at a time when Germany is facing a time of setbacks, panic and uncertainty with the Tr Neptune Saturn in Aries in hard aspect to the Germany Mars in Libra square Saturn in Capricorn in 2025/26, followed by a pressured tr Pluto square the Germany Moon in 2026/27 hinting at a mutinous electorate.
Merz, 11 November 1955, a stalwart Sun Saturn in Scorpio with Jupiter Pluto in late Leo has endurance but not flexibility. Yet with tr Pluto opposition his Uranus and tr Uranus and tr Neptune Saturn also in aspect to his Uranus he will have no option but to bend with changing circumstances.
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