Chancellor triggered path to elections, due to take place on 23 February, by firing finance minister Christian Lindner last month
Scholz begins noting it is the sixth time in the postwar period that a chancellor has called a confidence vote. He is the fifth chancellor to do so, after fellow Social Democrat Gerhard Schroeder used the measure twice.
Scholz is all smiles as the session begins with a loud buzzer echoing through the glass-domed chamber. He is huddling with his Social Democrat cabinet ministers as speaker Bärbel Bas takes the podium.
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Author : Deborah Cole
Publish date : 2024-12-16 12:03:57
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