Scholz will use his last Bundestag address to defend his government’s record, matching higher spending on security with more generous welfare
will trigger early elections on Monday, deliberately losing a confidence motion to end a coalition that collapsed a month ago and that few in Berlin have missed since.. As liberal Free Democratic Party leader, Mr Lindner and his parliamentary allies will withhold their support for the chancellor in theon Monday. The remaining coalition partners, the Social Democratic Party of Mr Scholz and the Greens, are 43 seats short of a Bundestag majority.
Asked on national radio whether he could imagine serving again as vice-chancellor, as he did to Angela Merkel, Mr Scholz replied: “I wouldn’t do that. I am fighting to become chancellor once again.” If re-elected the SPD is proposing a more creative approach to debt rules, off-balance sheet funds for infrastructure spending and support for Ukraine, the latter running at €20 billion this year.
Though seen as more socially conservative than his CDU predecessor Angela Merkel, Mr Merz has signalled some fiscal flexibility to loosen Germany’s self-imposed debt brake in some cases.
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