First not past the post: Germany's chancellor shocker

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  First up though.

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  So this morning in Berlin,

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  we were all prepared to see the German Bundestag elect Friedrich Metz,

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  head of the Conservative Christian Democrats, as Chancellor,

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  the 10th Chancellor of the German Republic.

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  Tom Novel is our Berlin bureau chief.

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  It's a fairly boring procedural event.

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