Scholz sent a confidence request to the Bundestag as chancellor

Olaf Scholz has signed and sent to the Bundestag a request for confidence in him as Federal Chancellor of Germany. The politician wrote about this on December 11 on his page in the social network X (former Twitter).

"I would like to pave the way for early federal elections," he wrote.

Along with this, Scholz posted a picture on the social network in which he signs a document addressed to the Speaker of Parliament. If the deputies of the Bundestag will refuse to trust the chancellor, early parliamentary elections will be held in February 2025.

The Bundestag will vote on the issue on December 16.

November 25, the leadership of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) unanimously nominated FRG Chancellor Olaf Scholz as a candidate in the upcoming early elections to the Bundestag in the country. It is noted that German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, having abandoned his candidacy, cleared the way for the nomination of Scholz.

Pistorius as early as November 21 announced the intention of the SPD to nominate the candidacy of the head of the government Olaf Scholz for the post of Chancellor of Germany.

Prior to that, on November 17, the Greens endorsed Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister Robert Habeck as a candidate for Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.

On November 8, historian, political scientist and Germanist, candidate of historical sciences Eugenia Pimenova said that the most likely candidate for the post of Chancellor of Germany to replace Scholz is the head of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Friedrich Merz.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced on November 6 that early elections would be held in the country. Then he noted that the latest when the elections could be held is the end of March 2025. At the same time, he said that he would raise the issue of a vote of confidence in the government in the Bundestag.