After a two-year lead in the polls, Friedrich Merz is largely expected to become German chancellor after the country's election later this month. Voters will head to the ballot box on 23 February after the collapse of Olaf Scholz's centre-left coalition in November. A victory for Merz would return German politics to the right and the traditional conservatism of the Christian Democrats. It would be a remarkable comeback for a man pushed aside by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s and who failed to take charge of his party twice. He left politics altogether for two decades, working in the...
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