Germany sets early elections for February 23 after the collapse of the Scholz Government

After the breakdown last week of the coalition government, Germany is moving towards early legislative elections that will take place They will celebrate next February 23. That is the date agreed upon by the parliamentary groups of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the main opposition party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

The agreement comes after days of disputes over the date, which It must still be ratified by the president of the country, Frank-Walter Stienmeier. He is the only one who can dissolve Parliament, but only after the current chancellor, the social democrat Olaf Scholzsubmits to a motion of confidence and loses it, as is expected to happen because it does not have a sufficient majority in the Bundestag.

For the moment, it is expected that the motion of confidence will have place on December 16as it progresses Der Spiegel. The collapse of the German tripartite, known as the traffic light coalition by the color of the parties (red for the social democrats, yellow for the liberals and green for the homonymous party) was precipitated last Wednesday.

After months of internal disputes, the chancellor dismissed to his finance ministerthe liberal leader Christian Lindner, and thus put an end to the alliance 11 months before exhausting the legislature.

Initially, Scholz proposed presenting the motion of confidence in January, so that the elections could be held in March. However, the opposition leader and favorite to be the new chancellor, the Christian Democrat Friederich Merz, has been pushing for advance the process and go to the polls in January.

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