German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier poisoned the resignation of three ministers: Finance Christian Lindner, Justice Marco Buschmann and Education and Research Bettina Stark-Watzinger.
Currently, the position of Minister of Finance is temporarily held by the Secretary of State to the Federal Chancellor. Jörg Kukis (SPD), writes the Telegram channel “Bild in Russian”*.
The Ministry of Justice will be headed by the Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure Volker Wissingreports the N-TV channel. According to Der Spiegel magazine, the current Minister of Food and Agriculture will be the Minister of Education and Research until the new elections. Cem Özdemir (“Vegetables”).
The day before, the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired Finance Minister Christian Lindner, leader of the liberal FDP party. In response to this, the Liberals left the government and broke the agreement on the “traffic light” government coalition with Scholz’s SPD party and the Greens. Thus, the Cabinet of Ministers lost support in the Bundestag, Bild points out in Russian*.
The head of the Ministry of Transport, Volker Wissing (FDP), refused to leave his position at the head of the party and announced his resignation.
“Leader of the largest opposition bloc CDU/CSU Friedrich Merz demanded that the question of confidence in Scholz be presented to the Bundestag not in January, as the Chancellor proposed, but already this week or, at most, next week.” – writes TK.
Earlier, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (himself of the SPD) gave a two-and-a-half-minute speech that a BILD observer called “inarticulate.” The Head of State, on the one hand, said that he would support the dismissal of several ministers at Scholz’s request, but, on the other hand, he was ready to dissolve the Bundestag and call new elections if Parliament did not express its confidence in the chancellor. It should be noted that Steinmeier did not give exact dates.
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