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Lindner's dismissal caused the collapse of the coalition, as the FDP moved into the opposition, leaving a two-party minority government of SPD and The Greens. On 16 December 2024, Scholz called a vote of confidence in the ruling government, which was lost. [2]
The coalition of SPD, Greens and FDP was an arrangement known as a "traffic light coalition" in German politics after the parties' traditional colours, respectively red, yellow and green, matching the colours of a traffic light (Ampel). This traffic light coalition-government was the first of its kind at the federal level in the history of the ...
Members of the smallest party in German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's unpopular coalition have voted in a low-profile ballot to stay in the troubled government, but the result underlines the three ...
A coalition collapse could leave Scholz heading a minority government and relying on ad hoc parliamentary majorities to govern, or trigger an early election - which surveys suggest would be ...
The collapse of Germany's governing coalition and President-elect Donald Trump's imminent return to the White House are creating new risks for the European Union's biggest economy, already in a ...
Grand coalition (German: Große Koalition, pronounced [ˈɡʁoːsə koaliˈt͡si̯oːn] ⓘ, shortened to: German: Groko, pronounced [ˈɡʁoːkoː] ⓘ) is a nickname in German politics describing a governing coalition of the parties Christian Democratic Union (CDU) along with its sister party the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU) and the Social Democratic Party (SPD), [1] [2] since ...
The chancellor said he would call a vote of confidence in his government early next year.
Such a coalition was in power between 2012 and 2017 under minister president Torsten Albig. In December 2021, following the September German general elections, a traffic light coalition (SPD, FDP, and Greens) led by Olaf Scholz took power in Germany, the first time a three-party coalition had formed at the federal level. [6]