Lhe German liberal party FDP announced Wednesday evening that all its ministers would leave the coalition government of Olaf Scholz, following the dismissal of Finance Minister Christian Lindner, thus depriving the chancellor of a majority in the Chamber of Deputies. “The other FDP ministers” in addition to Mr. Lindner, who is also president of the party, “explained that they were going to present their resignation to the chancellor and the head of state,” the president of the group told the press. parliamentarian of the movement, Christian Dürr.
Earlier in the evening, German Social Democratic Chancellor Olaf Scholz decided to dismiss his liberal Finance Minister Christian Lindner, opening the door to the end of the government coalition of Europe’s largest economy, undermined by dissension.
Mr. Scholz took this decision while Christian Lindner proposed during a crisis meeting in the evening, according to several media, the calling of early legislative elections in early 2025 in the face of blockages within the government on the economic policy to be carried out. .
This rupture, recorded at the end of a day of talks organized at the chancellery, puts an end to Olaf Scholz’s efforts in recent days to save the tripartite government coalition made up of his social democratic party, environmentalists and liberals, at loggerheads drawn for months and all very unpopular in public opinion.
While Olaf Scholz thought that the election of Republican Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States, which could result in protectionist measures harmful to the German economy, which is very focused on exports, would force his fragile coalition to close ranks , the opposite happened. The Chancellor has also announced that he will pose the question of confidence to MPs at the beginning of January
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