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German Chancellor Scholz Calls Snap Election as Coalition Government Collapses
Olaf Scholz is looking to bring the general election forward to March from September.
Updated Nov 7, 2024, 11:13 a.m. Published Nov 7, 2024, 11:11 a.m.
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- German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called for a snap election after the collapse of his three-party coalition government.
- Scholz wants a vote of confidence to occur by January to bring the federal election forward to March from September.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called for a snap election following the breakdown of his three-party ruling coalition, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.
Scholz called for a confidence vote to occur in the European Union's largest economy by January with the aim of moving next year's federal parliamentary election to March from September.
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The decision came after Scholz, who is from the Social Democratic Party, dismissed Finance Minister Christian Lindner, the chairman of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) party, saying he refused a proposal that would suspend rules limiting government borrowing.
"Too often, the necessary compromises were drowned out by publicly staged disputes and loud ideological demands,” Scholz said in a statement, according to Bloomberg.
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