Armin Laschet shows a luck coin offered to him by his father, in Berlin, Germany on January 16, 2021.
Laschet won 521 votes to Merz's 466; a third candidate, prominent lawmaker Norbert Roettgen, was eliminated in the first round of voting. He made his second attempt to win the party leadership after a decade away from front-line politics, following his narrow loss in 2018 to outgoing leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer.
"We must speak clearly but not polarise," he told delegates. "We must be able to integrate, hold society together."
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