German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called a confidence vote following the collapse of his coalition government. He has lost the vote, paving the way for elections in February. DW has the latest.
I think the no-confidence vote to make way for new elections isn’t the bad part here. The bad part is this insane idea, that he can be successful again, after having had to end his government prematurely.
The SPD already tried that move with Schröder. We got 16 years of Merkel out of it… And if the SPD would be anywhere close to the results Schröder achieved back then, they would party for three days straight.
They aren’t only blatantly lying, they are stupid enough to believe their own lies.
On the other hand, I’m not that sad about the SPD’s demise. Since Schröder turned them into a CDU in red, they are redundant. The problem is that nothing filled the giant void that the SPD’s reinvention as just another neoliberal party has left.
I think the no-confidence vote to make way for new elections isn’t the bad part here. The bad part is this insane idea, that he can be successful again, after having had to end his government prematurely.
The SPD already tried that move with Schröder. We got 16 years of Merkel out of it… And if the SPD would be anywhere close to the results Schröder achieved back then, they would party for three days straight.
That, too.
They aren’t only blatantly lying, they are stupid enough to believe their own lies.
On the other hand, I’m not that sad about the SPD’s demise. Since Schröder turned them into a CDU in red, they are redundant. The problem is that nothing filled the giant void that the SPD’s reinvention as just another neoliberal party has left.