BERLIN—Chancellor Olaf Scholz faces a confidence vote in the German parliament on Monday that he’s expected to lose, paving the way for the European Union’s most populous member and biggest economy to hold an early election in February. Scholz’s notoriously rancorous three-party government collapsed on Nov.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz makes a statement after formally asking for a vote of confidence in parliament, to set the path for an early election in spring 2025, at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024.
Leaders of several major parties then agreed that a parliamentary election should be held on February 23, seven months earlier than originally planned. Post-World War II Germany’s constitution doesn’t allow parliament’s lower house, or Bundestag, to dissolve itself—so a confidence vote is needed to set in motion the early election.Scholz’s Social Democrats hold 207 seats in the Bundestag and are expected to vote for the chancellor.
Center-right challenger Friedrich Merz on Saturday predicted “one of the hardest election campaigns” in modern German history, as Scholz’s Social Democrats “have their backs to the wall.” He said that it’s crucial to make the economy more competitive, because “the competitiveness of our economy is the precondition for everything else.”
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