The government of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a vote of confidence in the German parliament on Monday, opening the way for snap elections on 23 February 2025.
German lawmakers voted to dissolve the existing government by a vote of 394 to 207, with 116 abstaining, nine months before parliamentary elections were scheduled to happen.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier was forced to dissolve the parliament ahead of the new elections with the no-confidence vote.
The news comes after the governing coalition of France, the other leading power in the European Union, collapsed only a few weeks ago.
Scholz, who has led Germany since December 2021, is the most unpopular chancellor in the post-war era, as Europe’s largest economy continues to implode over high energy costs caused by the war in Ukraine. […]
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