The most unpopular German Chancellor in recorded history, Olaf Scholz suffered another humiliation today, as he lost a vote of confidence in parliament, opening the way for snap elections on 23 February 2025.
Scholz was forced to call today’s vote and was widely expected to lose it. But the embattled leader also calculated that an early election was his only chance of maintaining his party’s political prospects.
BBC reported:
“It comes around two months after the collapse of Scholz’s three-party coalition government, which left the embattled chancellor leading a minority administration.
Ahead of Monday’s vote, Scholz said it would now be up to voters to ‘determine the political course of our country’, teeing up what is likely to be a fiercely fought election campaign.”
Since Scholz’s coalition collapsed back in November, he’s been leading a lame-duck government.
“Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SDP) is trailing heavily in opinion polls, while the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) under Friedrich Merz appears to be on course for a return to government.”
As usual in the MSM, the BBC report ignores the chances of the upsurging right-wingers from AfD, which is a stupid stance.
Scholz’s coalition imploded over the budget: his center-left SDP and his Green partners wanted to bypass Germany’s strict debt rules to finance support for Ukraine, but were blocked by their own finance minister, Christian Lindner from FDP.
Lindner was subsequently fired, and the coalition collapsed.
“In 2017, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) entered the Bundestag for the first time, winning 12.6%. In 2021, it slipped to 10.4% but is now polling at almost 20%.”
Read: Germany’s Rightwing AfD Arrives at February Election as a Major Contender, With Alice Weidel as Candidate for Chancellor – Top-Polling CDU Party Pressured Into Alliance
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