Friday, December 27, 2024
Islamabad (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - DW Urdu - 27 December 2024) According to reports received from the federal capital Berlin, after the failure of the three-party government coalition led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz that came to power after the last general election, Scholz was leading a minority government and new elections have become mandatory in February next year after the dissolution of the Bundestag on the order issued by President Steinmeier today.
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Federal Chancellor Scholz, who belongs to the Social Democratic Party and is now the interim head of government, had sought a vote of confidence from the Bundestag on the 16th of this month and was expected to fail to obtain this vote.
Internal differences in the ruling coalition
The government coalition of Olaf Scholz's Social Democratic Party (SPD), the environmentalist Green Party and the progressive Free Democratic Party (FDP) collapsed on November 6 when Chancellor Scholz fired his finance minister and FDP leader Christian Lindner.
Scholz fired Lindner over policy differences over measures to revive the country's economy, and Lindner's party subsequently announced its departure from the ruling coalition. Since then, the Scholz government has consisted only of the SPD and the Green Party and was a minority government in terms of the number of members it supported in the parliament that was dissolved today.
Mutual consensus of several political parties
The consensus reached in principle between several of the country's major political parties after the collapse of the three-party ruling coalition in Berlin determined that the next general elections in the country would be held on February 23, 2025, about seven months before the usual parliamentary term.
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It was decided in this consensus that Chancellor Scholz would seek a vote of confidence from the Bundestag, which was certain to fail, and then President Steinmeier would dissolve parliament and thus the German people would be asked to elect their parliamentary representatives once again at the beginning of the fourth week of February next year.
In this context, despite the political uncertainty in the country, all the steps leading up to the new general elections have been completed as planned and there are no more constitutional obstacles left in the way of new federal elections.
The Bundestag cannot dissolve itself
The current Germany was formed as a federal democratic state after the Second World War and its constitution does not provide for the possibility of the federal parliament dissolving itself.
Therefore, it is the job of the federal president to decide whether to dissolve the Bundestag and make it possible to hold new general elections in the country. Federal President Steinmeier has already done this.
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After Chancellor Scholz did not receive the confidence of the majority of parliamentary members, President Steinmeier had a constitutional time of 21 days to order the dissolution of the Bundestag.
Now that the lower house of parliament has been dissolved, according to the federal constitution, new elections must be held in the country within the next 60 days. These elections will be held within the same period on February 23.
In Germany, the failure of the parliamentary vote of confidence for the Scholz government has begun a kind of election campaign, which will now become increasingly intense.
The Social Democratic Party will participate in the next elections under the leadership of Olaf Scholz, and Scholz will once again be a candidate for the position of Chancellor.
Only the fourth time that parliament has been dissolved prematurely
In the history of the Federal Republic of Germany, there have only been four times that the president of the country has dissolved the Bundestag.
The first time this happened was in 1972, when the Social Democrat politician Willy Brandt was Chancellor. The second time this happened was in 1982, when Helmut Kohl of the conservative Christian Democratic Union was the head of government.
The third and last time this happened was in 2005, when Gerhard Schröder of the SPD was Chancellor. The fourth and most recent such incident was today's presidential decision, in which the Bundestag was dissolved and the chancellor was Olaf Scholz, a politician from the Social Democratic Party.
M M / Sh R (Reuters, DPA, AFP)
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