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Justifying his decision to dismiss the Finance Minister, Schulz said, “We need a government that is able to work and has the power to make the necessary decisions for our country.”
And he takes over Schulz The chancellorship is through a coalition of three parties: the Social Democratic Party led by him, the Free Democrats led by Lindner, and the Green Party.
On Thursday, the conservative opposition called on… Germany Schulz’s government has decided to put forward a vote of confidence in his government before Parliament next week and not at the beginning of next year as he proposed.
Christian Democratic Union Party leader Friedrich Merz said Schulz’s coalition had “failed,” speaking after a meeting of his parliamentary group in Berlin.
On Wednesday evening, Schulz said that he had fired Finance Minister Christian Lindner because he “repeatedly betrayed my trust… Serious government work is not possible under such circumstances.”
The dismissal came at a time when the dispute was intensifying over ways to revive the faltering German economy and the strict spending budget that had been in place for weeks between the Social Democrats led by Schulz and his partners.
Lindner proposed adopting comprehensive economic reforms that the other two parties opposed, and explicitly put forward the idea of leaving the coalition.
Only hours passed until the rest of the liberal ministers announced their withdrawal from the government, which thus lost its majority in the House of Representatives.
However, German Transport Minister Volker Vissing announced on Thursday that he would withdraw from the Liberal Party and remain in the government.
“I want to remain true to myself,” the minister declared, explaining why he did not join other ministers from his party who withdrew from the coalition.