BERLIN German MPs will gather on May 6 to elect Friedrich Merz as the country's new chancellor after his conservative CDU/CSU bloc sealed a coalition agreement with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD). "The president of the German Bundestag, Julia Kloeckner, is preparing to convene the German Bundestag for the election of the federal chancellor... on Tuesday, May 6," the assembly said in a statement yesterday. Germany 's next leader, the conservative Merz, vowed on April 9 to "move the