German leader Olaf Scholz is expected to lose a confidence vote in parliament on Monday, a defeat the Social Democratic chancellor is counting on to trigger early elections after calling an end to his three-way coalition last month.
Scholz and his partners, the Greens, no longer command a parliamentary majority since the SPD chancellor sacked his finance minister, the liberal FDP party chief Christian Lindner, on November 6. The ousting followed months of quarrelling over the budget, and came as prospects darken for the eurozone’s largest economy.
“In a democracy, it is the voters who determine the course of future politics,” Scholz said last week.
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