Germany's Scholz loses confidence vote

China Daily

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BERLIN: Germany's centre-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a confidence vote on Monday (Dec 16) after weeks of turmoil, setting Europe's biggest economy on the path to early elections on February 23.
CNA
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Now that centre-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz has lost a confidence vote following the dramatic collapse of his three-party coalition, Merz may soon get his chance after decades of waiting in the wings.
International Business Times
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Under rules designed to prevent the instability that facilitated the rise of fascism in the 1930s, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier can only dissolve parliament and call an election if the chancellor calls, and loses, a confidence vote.
Fox News
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The heated and largely inward-looking parliamentary debate preceding the vote — the SPD and the Greens are in government now and could be future coalition partners for Merz as well — suggested the next coalition may be as incompatible and conflictual as the one that just fell.
Politico Europe

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