The head of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), Olaf Scholz, was officially elected the new chancellor of the FRG. The broadcast from the meeting at which the voting took place was published in Twitter Bundestag.
According to the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, the chancellor is elected by secret ballot without debate, already in the first round. The assembled politicians congratulated him on his election. Scholz received the majority of votes in his favor among the deputies of the lower house of parliament (736 in total).
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Now the future chancellor will go to a meeting with President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, after which he will take the oath of office in parliament.
Thus, lawmakers ended the 16-year period of rule of ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel. The current head of the German government will resign immediately after the election of Scholz, during the present day.
“There will be no other chancellor, no shadow chancellor. Madame Chancellor, as she has already stated, then intends to quit political work, “said the official representative of the German government Steffen Seibert.
According to a number of analysts, after her departure from office, Merkel left “a few positive moments” both for her fellow party members from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and for her European colleagues in general.
A solemn ceremony of the army’s farewell to Merkel took place on December 2. 200 people were invited to the ceremony – all 52 federal ministers during her reign and other associates.
Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs Vladimir Dzhabarov in a conversation with “Lenta.ru” positively assessed the election of a new chancellor.
In addition, Dzhabarov hoped that the new chancellor would treat Russia constructively and build his policy “not on confrontation, but on solving certain problems,” despite the Russophobic positions of some members of the coalition.
The SPD was able to finally sign a coalition agreement with the Soyuz 90 / Greens and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) on 24 November.
In the coalition agreement reached, the German government promises to return to the debt brake in 2023, not to introduce any new taxes, to abandon coal as early as 2030, to modernize the industry and resolve social issues related to homelessness and child poverty.
The SPD won the parliamentary elections on September 26 with 25.7 percent of the vote, while the conservative CDU / Christian Social Union (CSU) bloc gained just 24.1 percent. In total, six parties entered the new Bundestag, with 736 deputies.
Alexander Kamkin, a leading researcher at the Center for German Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, believes that the German government will choose a pragmatic approach towards Russia, so no significant deterioration is expected. In an interview with “Lenta.ru” he admitted that the main place in German foreign policy in any case will be given to relations with the United States.
Speaking about Russian-German relations, the political scientist recalled that the Bild newspaper called the approach of the future chancellor to relations with Moscow “the principle of a village disco”, that is, “they dance with those in the hall”. Kamkin jokingly noted that the German edition most likely meant its own local disco, because at village dances in Russia, it can go as far as wall-to-wall fights. “The main thing is to avoid it,” he said.
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