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Germany has a new Federal Chancellor, the Social Democrat Olaf Scholz, who with 395 votes against 303 against and six abstentions was elected to succeed the conservative Angela Merkel. Scholz will govern together with the so-called “semaphore coalition”, in which his allies will be the Greens and the Liberals, who together add 416 seats in the Bundestag, the Lower House of the German Parliament, out of a total of 736 seats, thus becoming most. What awaits Olaf Scholz as the new leader of the European power in these turbulent times?
Angela Merkel transferred power after 16 years to her vice chancellor for three years and also finance minister in a last major government coalition.
This new Administration, made up of three parties, is unprecedented at the federal level in the European country. It is already beginning to make history for being the most equal government in history in Germany, the economic locomotive of Europe. Eight federal ministries will be occupied by women, including four related to national security and foreign policy such as Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development.
Now begins a new chapter in the political history of Germany and many questions arise in this scenario: What direction will Germany take? What will German policy towards Latin America be like? What role will it play in the European Union? How will this new government build its relationship with France, Russia, the United States, China and Turkey? What positions will you take in the face of the resurgence of the extreme right, migration and the pandemic in Germany?
These are the topics to be analyzed in this edition of El Debate with our guests:
– Jochen Kleinschmidt, political scientist, researcher at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
– Paulina Astroza, director of the European Studies Program at the Universidad de Concepción in Chile.
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