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La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, November 9, 2024, p. 17
Budapest., The German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, declared yesterday that he was willing to discuss the deadlines for calling new elections, conditional on the approval of laws still pending in the Bundestag (Parliament).
I would like to quickly facilitate new elections in Germany so that there is clarity soon after the departure of the Liberal Party (FDP) from the coalition. We should discuss the date as calmly as possiblehe declared from Budapest, where he attended an informal summit of the European Union (EU).
He explained that the agreement could determine the appropriate moment to call a vote of confidence in Parliament, as well as the date of the elections.
The social democrat urged that Democratic parliamentary groups agree on the laws they can approve this year.
Given that the government is now a minority in the Bundestag, the motion of confidence could be rejected and, in that case, elections would have to be called within 60 days, so early elections would be held before April.
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Europe’s largest economy fell into political crisis this week, after the collapse of the three-party coalition (the Social Democratic Party, the FDP and the Greens) over disagreements over how much money the government should spend to stimulate growth and support Ukraine.
The leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Friedrich Merz, increased pressure on Scholz to move forward with the elections, while the Minister of Economy, Robert Habeck, is emerging as a candidate for minister for the Green party.
As the vast majority of the German electorate, I think it is irresponsible to handle this in such a way that it becomes a mere delayexpressed Merz. The Christian Democrat leader, who will be the candidate for chancellor of the conservative alliance between the CDU and the Christian Social Union, said that the motion of confidence should be voted on next week. According to an opinion poll, the Politbarometer of the ZDF network, 84 percent think that it is preferable to bring forward the elections as soon as possible.