Olaf Scholz willing to hold confidence vote this year after ruling coalition collapse

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The so-called 'Traffic Light Coalition' – made up of Scholz’s Social Democrats, the liberal FDP and the Greens – collapsed on 6 November after Scholz fired Finance Minister Christian Lindner.

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00:00Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said he's willing to hold a confidence vote in

00:06parliament before the end of the year after the ruling three-party coalition collapsed.

00:12In an interview on Sunday night with public broadcaster ARD, Scholz said, I'm not glued

00:17to my post.

00:18He'd originally scheduled the vote for the 15th of January, but in the face of increasing

00:23pressure is now considering holding it this year, paving the way for snap elections.

00:28Scholz is widely expected to lose the vote.

00:31In that case, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will have 21 days to dissolve the Bundestag

00:36and fresh elections must take place within 60 days of parliament's closure.

00:42Scholz also denied he'd provoked the coalition's collapse, saying he'd done everything he could

00:46to keep it together.

00:48The so-called traffic light coalition collapsed on the 6th of November after Scholz fired

00:53finance minister Christian Lindner.

00:56Speaking to the press at the time, Scholz said Lindner had broken his trust too many

01:00times.

01:02The coalition had been at odds for some time, particularly over economic and fiscal policy.

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