Germany's Scholz to face confidence vote expected to trigger election

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2024-12-16

Berlin (dpa) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is set to face a confidence vote in parliament on Monday, a motion he tabled after the collapse of his centre-left coalition government to trigger early elections on February 23. Scholz, from the Social Democrats (SPD), who submitted the motion for the vote in the lower house, or Bundestag, last week, is all but certain to see support for his government withdrawn as it no longer holds a majority in par......

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