The government was declared impeachable after the vote that took place, but also the three-hour debate that preceded it in Parliament.
The procedure, based on Article 68 of the German Constitution, validated the , date that had already been agreed cross-party.
The government of Olaf Solz was voted against by 394 MPs out of 717 who took part in the process.
In his speech to the Bundestag, Scholz emphasized the need for “respect for all”, a slogan that will dominate his election campaign. At the same time, he blamed Christian Lindner, leader of the Free Democrats (FDP), for the dissolution of the governing coalition, characterizing his attitude as “sabotage” and a lack of “moral maturity”.
Chancellor Scholz will visit the Presidential Palace to ask Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to dissolve the Bundestag.
Under Article 39 of the Constitution, elections must be held within 60 days of the dissolution of the government, with the president expected to consent due to broad cross-party agreement.
The snap election marks the fifth time in post-war Germany that a chancellor has called for a vote of confidence to pave the way for elections at a critical political time for the country.
The Chronicle of the “Fall”
It is recalled that the leader of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) Christian Lindner, a partner of the German government.
which the chancellor had rejected. The FDP leader is reported to have argued that there is no longer common ground between the government partners in order to achieve a meaningful economic recovery.
According to BILD, Olaf Solz “caught up” with the FDP leader, who had planned to leave the governing committee. He wanted to end the coalition agreement with the SPD and the Greens. Then he was thinking of withdrawing his ministers. “Everything was prepared“, the newspaper reports.
Olaf Solz was chancellor of a minority government of the Social Democrats and Greens, which won only 315 of the 733 votes in the Bundestag when 367 were needed, after the ouster of Finance Minister Christian Lindner and the withdrawal of the Liberal centrists from the three-party governing coalition.
