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Factbox-Policies of German opposition chief and possible next chancellor Merz

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73% Informative

Friedrich Merz , head of Germany 's Christian Democrats , and Markus Soeder , the head of their Bavarian sister party, said on Tuesday they had agreed Merz would become chancellor candidate for their conservative alliance.

Their conservatives are on track to win next year's federal election.

Merz has taken a more hawkish approach on support for Ukraine than the government.

He later said this was because he considered it was already a crime under existing assault laws. ($ 1 = 0.8977 euros) (Reporting by Sarah Marsh ; editing by Matthias Williams , Alexandra Hudson ).

VR Score

83

Informative language

86

Neutral language

63

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

60

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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no external sources

Source diversity

no sources

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