Mirroring the French political crisis, Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck expressed concern about the weakness of his country and neighboring democracies.
At precisely 1 p.m. on Monday, Olaf Scholz began a thirty-minute speech in front of the Bundestag at the end of which he placed the fate of his government in the hands of the Assembly. His conservative opponent Friedrich Merz responded sharply, followed by all factions of Parliament. After which the latter, unsurprisingly, withdrew his confidence in the chancellor.
Finally, the head of government went to Bellevue Castle, the home of President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who will take ultimate responsibility for calling early legislative elections on February 23. Such an event had not occurred in Germany for twenty years and the failure of the Schröder government.
Unprecedented coalition
Thus officially fell, before term, the government of Olaf Scholz, which became a minority after he dismissed his Finance Minister, Christian Lindner. The experience of the unprecedented tripartite coalition bringing together social democrats, ecologists and liberals…
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