Germany will hold snap elections on February 23, under a new plan agreed on Tuesday by Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats with the main opposition party, the Christian Democratic Union.
Under the deal, Scholz will table a confidence vote in his government on December 16, according to a person familiar with the matter. He had originally planned to hold it a month later, but came under pressure from the opposition to speed up the process.
However, a CDU official cautioned that it was the German president who sets the date for elections, not the parties. “In the end, he alone decides,” the person said.
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