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Scholz is expected to lose the vote, slated for Dec. 16, as his government no longer has a majority. He must then request the president to dissolve parliament, triggering new elections.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz sent a request to parliament on Wednesday to hold a vote of confidence on Dec. 16, setting a path to an early federal election next year after the collapse of his ...
Macron’s center-right prime minister, Michel Barnier, is facing a no-confidence vote tabled by far-right leader Marine Le Pen and her National Rally party. The left-wing New Popular Front ...
In April 2024, Humza Yousaf, first minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), faced a confidence challenge following his termination of the Bute House Agreement between the SNP and the Scottish Greens, which meant that Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater, co-leaders of the Greens and their only government ministers, were removed from government. [2]
John Diefenbaker (1963) – loss of confidence supply as a result of cabinet revolt; Pierre Trudeau (1974) – loss of confidence supply [a] Joe Clark (1979) – lost a budget vote; Paul Martin (2005) – opposition triggered motion [b] Stephen Harper (2011) – motion of no confidence that held the government in contempt of Parliament.
Given that Scholz’s party no longer holds the majority, he is expected to lose in the upcoming confidence vote, at which point Germany’s president could dissolve parliament within 21 days and ...
In the lead up to the 2024 election, the Republican Party made false claims of massive "noncitizen voting" by immigrants in an attempt to delegitimize the election in the event of a Trump defeat. [61] [62] [63] The claims were made as part of larger Republican Party efforts to disrupt the 2024 election and election denial movement. [64]
It was France's first successful vote of no confidence in more than 60 years. Michel Barnier, the French prime minister, lost a no-confidence vote in the National Assembly on Wednesday after left ...