Scholz receives no-confidence vote from Bundestag

The Bundestag expressed a no-confidence vote in the government of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz during a vote on Monday, December 16.

This was reported by DW.

The vote of no-confidence was supported by members of the largest opposition faction - the conservative bloc consisting of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Free Democratic Party (FDP), representatives of the Left Party, the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (SWA) and the Alternative for Germany, the publication noted.

Early elections to the Bundestag will now be held on February 23. To avoid a no-confidence vote, Scholz had to be supported by at least 367 MPs. At the same time, 394 lawmakers supported the no-confidence vote in the current government, and 207 parliamentarians supported Scholz's government. Another 116 abstained from voting altogether.

DW writes that the Bundestag elections were to be held at the end of September 2025.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, on November 15, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had a telephone conversation with russian dictator vladimir putin, the first direct communication between Scholz and putin in almost two years.

On November 26, Scholz said that the telephone conversation with putin "was not pleasant."

On November 29, Scholz told President Volodymyr Zelenskyy the details of his call to russian dictator putin.