Olaf Scholz ready to hold the vote of confidence in the parliament before Christmas!
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said he is ready to hold a vote of confidence in parliament before Christmas after the three-party ruling coalition collapsed a week ago. In an interview Sunday night with public broadcaster ARD, Scholz said: "I don't stand by my post."
"Think about what is best and where the citizens and the parties that are competing with the parties now in government and the parties represented in the Bundestag have their rights? There are many things to consider," he said.
"And I simply say that I am in favor of this happening because I also want it to happen quickly. I don't want a new mandate from everyone else, but only from citizens with strong pro-SPD votes.
Scholz had originally scheduled the vote for January 15, but in the face of mounting pressure is now considering holding it this year, paving the way for early elections.
Scholz is widely expected to lose the vote, in which case President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will have 21 days to dissolve the Bundestag and new elections must be held within 60 days of parliament closing.
But Scholz also denied that he had provoked the collapse of the coalition, saying he had done everything he could to keep it together.
"No, I didn't provoke him...I tried all the way to put things together. We accomplished a lot of little things, but the real issue didn't go away. And that's why we've been discussing it all day. And I I think you should be open and honest with the public about this.
The so-called 'Traffic Light Coalition' – made up of Scholz's Social Democrats, the liberal FDP and the Greens – collapsed on November 6 after Scholz sacked finance minister Christian Lindner.
"He (Lindner) has broken my trust many times," Scholz told the press at the time, adding that "there is no longer any basis of trust for further cooperation" as the FDP leader "is more concerned about his clientele and the survival of his party". Lindner is the head of the Free Democratic Party.
Scholz replaced Lindner as finance minister with the current state secretary in the chancellery, Jörg Kukies.
The coalition had been at odds for some time, particularly over economic policy, with serious strains on the 2025 budget and a disappointing performance by the German economy prompting increasingly divergent suggestions on how to tackle and solve the problems.
Many coalition lawmakers had hoped that, after Donald Trump secured the US presidency for a second term, internal squabbles would be put aside to focus on potential geopolitical challenges ahead.
Meanwhile, a German government spokesman confirmed that Scholz and Trump had a telephone conversation on Sunday evening in which they exchanged views on bilateral issues and geopolitical challenges.
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