"There were more opposition votes than I had expected," Nahles told the broadcaster Welt. She insisted that the SPD position had been "very cohesive", pointing her finger at rebel delegates in the CDU and CSU factions.
Opposition parties interpreted Merkel's parliamentary confirmation as evidence for growing fatigue with the "grand coalition" and remaining internal disputes between the CDU, CSU and SPD. Free Democratic Party (FDP) leader Christian Lindner, who triggered the collapse of earlier "Jamaica" coalition negotiations, described Wednesday's vote as constituting a "loss of authority" for the chancellor.
The new federal cabinet will convene for the first time later today. Foreign minister Heiko Maas (SPD) will also travel to Paris on Wednesday in a first demonstration of the normalization of German politics to Berlin's international partners.
The chancellor is subsequently scheduled to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday to discuss Franco-German plans for the reform of the European Union (EU) and eurozone.
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