Five things to know about Germany's government crisis
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced he will ask for a vote of confidence in December, setting the path for an early election in February
By AP News
Published - Nov 13, 2024, 11:59 AM ET
Last Updated - Dec 16, 2024, 05:26 PM EST
BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced he will ask for a vote of confidence in December, setting the path for an early election in February. His three-party coalition government collapsed last week.
Here are five things to know about the political turmoil in the European Union's largest economy:
Scholz’s center-left Social Democrats, Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck’s environmentalist, left-leaning Greens and Christian Lindner’s pro-business Free Democrats — a party that has mostly allied with conservatives — set out in 2021 to form an ambitious, progressive coalition straddling ideological divisions that would modernize Germany.
