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CDU's Friedrich Merz aims to become Germany's chancellor

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Friedrich Merz is the leader of the center-right Christian Democratic Union party ( CDU ) and the conservative parliamentary group that includes Bavaria 's Christian Social Union ( CSU ) He will be the bloc's top candidate, taking on the Social Democrats (SPD) in the February 23 general election.

At the age of 69 , Merz would become the oldest person to take office as Germany 's head of government since Konrad Adenauer in 1949 .

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