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Germany faces winter elections
AlArabiya English
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2/22/2025
Early elections in Germany, now taking place during winter, were triggered by the collapse of Chancellor Scholz’s government.
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This election in Germany is happening in bitter cold winter for the first time in decades.
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Is this significant at all?
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Well Leanne, I think it tells you exactly just how we got here.
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This election was not meant to be held right now, it was originally slated for the kind
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of European spring, summer period, it would have made it much nicer one would imagine
00:21
for all of those candidates out door knocking and trying to canvas on the streets.
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The reason we're having it now in the depths of the European winter is because Olaf Scholz's
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former government collapsed after a fairly spectacular divorce with some of those parties
00:36
that were part of it, and so right now we've been thrust into this early election.
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Nevertheless, they're trying to not let the weather affect the campaign trail, you certainly
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still see many party volunteers out on the street trying to bolster their base, but it
00:50
certainly is I think a signal of the fact that this is an early election, it was not
00:54
intended to take place right now, but those leading candidates for Chancellor are hoping
01:00
that there might be brighter days ahead I guess you could say for them and their parties
01:04
as they conduct that race for the Chancellery with less than 48 hours to go until polls
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open.
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