German Chancellor Mertz announced the restructuring of the federal government on the 24th to adjust a number of candidates for important positions in the cabinet and ruling party. Mertz announced on the same day that the current Minister of Health, Nina Walken, will be the head of the Federal Chancellor's Office, and Carsten Linnemann, the current CDU Secretary General, will take over as Minister of Health. Philip Amtor, the current Secretary of State of the Ministry of Digitalization and National Modernization, will join the Prime Minister's Office as Minister of State responsible for cooperation between the Federation and the states. Mertz said that he has reached an agreement with CSU Chairman Markus Zedd to nominate current Prime Minister Torsten Frei as the new chairman of the Union Party Bundestag caucus.

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