{"id":25623,"date":"2025-02-24T02:35:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T02:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/who-is-friedrich-merz-the-conservative-set-to-become-germanys-new-chancellor\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T02:35:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T02:35:41","slug":"who-is-friedrich-merz-the-conservative-set-to-become-germanys-new-chancellor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/who-is-friedrich-merz-the-conservative-set-to-become-germanys-new-chancellor\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Friedrich Merz? The conservative set to become Germany&#8217;s new chancellor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is poised to win the German election, with Friedrich Merz set to become the new chancellor. The ruling Social Democrats are seeing a decline, while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is gaining ground. Merz, known for his firm stance on asylum-seekers and business background, aims to strengthen Europe&#8217;s security.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is poised to win the German election, with Friedrich Merz set to become the new chancellor. The ruling Social Democrats are seeing a decline, while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is gaining ground. Merz, known for his firm stance on asylum-seekers and business background, aims to strengthen Europe&#8217;s security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}