Olaf Scholz called Monday’s vote with the expectation of losing it, but with the hope that it would boost the fortunes of his center-left Social Democratic Party.
  • lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.comEnglish
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    5 days ago

    By the way: The 3 party government collapsed more than a month ago and the remaining parties don’t have a majority.

    The confidence vote is a way to get new elections and it was supposed to be lost by him. He wanted it this way at this point.