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Markus Schreiber/Associated Press Friedrich Merz is likely to be Germany’s next chancellor. But many voters do not seem that excited about that prospect — even some who backed him on Sunday.

The leader of the conservative Christian Democrats celebrated as exit polls indicated they had won Sunday’s election, which had the highest voter turnout in decades.