German chancellor Olaf Scholz faces vote of confidence: What can we expect?

The German Bundestag will hold of confidence in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government on Monday. What does this mean?

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00:00German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is facing a no-confidence vote in the Bundestag on Monday,

00:07following the collapse of the German so-called Traffic Light Coalition.

00:12Scholz is generally expected to lose the vote, setting the stage for snap elections to be

00:17held in February.

00:19If Scholz does indeed lose the vote, Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will then

00:23decide whether or not to dissolve the Bundestag.

00:27In current polls, the conservative CDU party led by Friedrich Merz is far ahead of Scholz's

00:32SPD.

00:33The far-right AfD is also seeing gains, following trends seen earlier this year when it became

00:39the first far-right party to win a state election since 1945.

00:45Scholz's government has grown increasingly unpopular over the years amid Germany's stagnant

00:49economy that has led to mass job losses and strikes.

00:54Economic crisis management will therefore be a core issue driving the upcoming election

00:59campaigns.