The vote of confidence was the only item on the agenda in the Bundestag session
Today’s session in the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, has one thing on the agenda: voter confidence. Chancellor Olavi Scholz this way to the new elections on February 23 a finance minister fired Last month, Christian Lindner, who led the pro-business Free Democrats, was forced to resign from government, robbing the majority of the party.
The dramatic developments came after months of fighting fiscal priorities and ideological differences which finally became too much for the first three years of the union of Germany to tolerate. The centre-left Social Democrats and the ecologist Greens will continue at the top of the EU economy until a new government can be formed, probably in the spring.
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Scholz laughs it all off, as the session begins with a shrill voice echoing through the glass room. He disagrees with his ministers of the Social Democrat cabinet saying Bärbel Bas takes the podium.
Scholz can hope to lose today’s vote, reaching his intended career goals.
Although speculation is far from over Alternative parts of Germany try to order a torpedo drive through a new election to create chaos. If enough AfD MPs vote for Scholz as a vote of confidence, he can prop up his minority government against his will. In order to prevent this from happening, the Bundestag requires the legislators to vote by name, so that they leave each person on the ballot with his or her statutory representative.
And the leaders of the Greens parliamentary group, junior partners in the government, have warned their members to abstain while the center-right CDU/CSU and FDP vote against Scholz, so he will likely not win a majority.
Scholz, who is completely unpopularHe will start the session at 1pm CET with a short speech outlining his reasons for calling the motion of confidence. He will be fifth chancellor as a measure placed in Article 68 of Germany’s Basic Law from the Second World War – Angela Merkel was a rare exception in never using it despite 16 years in power during many crises. About 90 minutes of discussion will follow.
If all go according to Scholz’s plan, a majority of MPs will vote against Scholz and may go to President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at Bellevue Palace in central Berlin, recommending that the current Bundestag head of state dissolve and clear the way for the general. election Steinmeier will have 21 days to make a decision, which he will discuss with the leaders of the various parliamentary groups. If the Bundestag agrees to dissolve, an election must be held within 60 days, thus clearing the way for the February 23 polls.
The vote of confidence was the only item on the agenda in the Bundestag session
Today’s session in the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, has one thing on the agenda: voter confidence. Chancellor Olavi Scholz this way to the new elections on February 23 a finance minister fired Last month, Christian Lindner, who led the pro-business Free Democrats, was forced to resign from government, robbing the majority of the party.
The dramatic developments came after months of fighting fiscal priorities and ideological differences which finally became too much for the first three years of the union of Germany to tolerate. The centre-left Social Democrats and the ecologist Greens will continue at the top of the EU economy until a new government can be formed, probably in the spring.
I, Deborah Cole, one of the two correspondents of Berlin, will guide you through the historical confidence of today’s vote in the Bundestag during the three-year government of Olaf Scholz. In the Sunday Observer, Europe correspondent Jon Henley and I They offered a look to the high-stakes political upheaval in the two EU powers, Germany and France, and how they emerged from it. For Germany, this is Step One.