Germany faces winter elections

Early elections in Germany, now taking place during winter, were triggered by the collapse of Chancellor Scholz’s government. #Germany

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00:00This election in Germany is happening in bitter cold winter for the first time in decades.

00:07Is this significant at all?

00:10Well Leanne, I think it tells you exactly just how we got here.

00:13This election was not meant to be held right now, it was originally slated for the kind

00:17of European spring, summer period, it would have made it much nicer one would imagine

00:21for all of those candidates out door knocking and trying to canvas on the streets.

00:26The reason we're having it now in the depths of the European winter is because Olaf Scholz's

00:31former government collapsed after a fairly spectacular divorce with some of those parties

00:36that were part of it, and so right now we've been thrust into this early election.

00:41Nevertheless, they're trying to not let the weather affect the campaign trail, you certainly

00:45still see many party volunteers out on the street trying to bolster their base, but it

00:50certainly is I think a signal of the fact that this is an early election, it was not

00:54intended to take place right now, but those leading candidates for Chancellor are hoping

01:00that there might be brighter days ahead I guess you could say for them and their parties

01:04as they conduct that race for the Chancellery with less than 48 hours to go until polls

01:09open.