Germany's CDU/CSU expects 2nd round of chancellor voting

BERLIN, May 6 (Xinhua) -- Following Friedrich Merz's failed German Chancellor election, the CDU/CSU parliamentary group leader Jens Spahn announced that a second round of voting will take place later Tuesday afternoon.

Multiple German media outlets expected the second round of voting to be held at 15:15 local time (1415 GMT).

Merz failed to secure the required majority in Tuesday morning's Bundestag vote, falling six votes short of the 316 needed to be elected chancellor.

The day before, the CDU and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), had formally signed a coalition agreement with the Social Democratic Party (SPD). The CDU/CSU and the SPD had also successively announced their cabinet lists. Enditem