The German Chancellor Olaf Scholzhas shown himself open this Friday to negotiating with the conservative opposition regarding the early elections after the breakup of his government coalition occur before the month of March, as he had initially arranged.
“From my point of view, the conversation must now take place where it belongs and now is taking place between parliamentary groups”Scholz said at the end of an informal European summit in Budapest, after Friedrich Merzleader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has proposed to advance the appointment with the polls in exchange for supporting some projects of the minority Government.
“I announced on Wednesday that I want to quickly make early elections possible so that there is clarity after the departure of the Liberal Party (FDP) from the Government“, pointed out the chancellor when referring to the formation that until Wednesday included the coalition that Scholz has led in the last three years together with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the Greens.
“We should discuss if possible without nervousnesswell it would be good if in the Bundestag (Lower House) an agreement will be reached between the democratic factions on what laws can be passed this year“, he stated when referring to measures that he I would like to see them approved in Parliament before the end of the year.
The chancellor has rejected that he is going to condition the motion of confidence, a vote that He knows that he has lost in advance for not having a majorityto the eventual support of other parliamentary groups for pending initiatives.
“I would not require others to support a policy with which they do not agree,” Scholz highlighted, on a day in which Friedrich Merz raised next January 19 as the date for holding early elections.
“He January 19 new elections could be held in Germany,” Merz said in a statement to the magazine Stern. “That’s in two and a half months.”the head of the main opposition party in Germany stressed this Friday.
Scholz has announced that he will undergo a motion of confidence next January 15so early elections should be held at the end of March or beginning of April.
On this Friday morning, Merz has demanded that the chancellor advance the vote of confidence to Wednesday of next weekcoinciding with his government statement on the situation in the country in the Lower House.
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