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…
