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Berlin (AP) - After his defeat in the election of the CDU chairman, Friedrich Merz wants to become Federal Minister of Economics in the current federal government.

Merz wrote on Twitter on Saturday that he had offered the new party chairman Armin Laschet to join the current federal government and take over the Ministry of Economic Affairs.

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Merz on Twitter