German chancellor’s widely expected parliamentary defeat is main route to trigger early elections under constitution
German leader Olaf Scholz is expected to lose a confidence vote in parliament on Monday, a defeat the Social Democratic chancellor is counting on to trigger early elections after calling an end to his three-way coalition last month. Scholz and his partners, the Greens, no longer command a parliamentary majority since the SPD chancellor sacked his finance minister, the liberal FDP party chief Christian Lindner, on November 6.
They hope to delay general elections and the likely victory of centre-right CDU candidate Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner in the polls. Merz wants to deliver long-range missiles to Ukraine — a measure the AfD opposes. Once Scholz has lost the confidence vote, Germany’s president and head of state, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, will be able to confirm the pre-agreed date for new elections of February 23, formally kicking off the campaign.
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