Scholz confidence vote defeat: What happens next?

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As expected, Germany will head to the polls on February 23 after Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost his confidence vote in Parliament.  #germany #elections #germanelections #scholz

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00:00Germans will go to the polls to elect a new government on the 23rd of February next year.

00:05That's after Olaf Scholz called a vote of confidence in his now-minority government,

00:10which he lost on Monday.

00:12207 MPs in the Bundestag just behind me voted in favour of Olaf Scholz.

00:18However, 394 voted against with 116 abstentions.

00:24What that means is that we're about to launch into full-on campaign mode here

00:28in Europe's largest economy, roughly eight or nine months earlier than we had expected.

00:34There was supposed to be a vote in the autumn of next year.

00:36However, it's all come to the fore after the three-way coalition of the Social Democrats,

00:41the Greens and the Free Democrats finally fell apart.

00:44It was always a struggle between those three parties.

00:47They very rarely saw eye-to-eye across the cabinet table.

00:50It was last month when Christian Lindner was sacked for not being flexible enough,

00:55as far as Olaf Scholz said it, when it came to the debt break in the country.

00:59That brought about the Free Democrats pulling out of the coalition

01:03and brought us to the situation where we are now.

01:05All eyes on the 23rd and quite a long and ferocious campaigning period between now and then.

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