{"id":136067,"date":"2024-12-16T09:15:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T07:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/german-chancellor-olaf-scholz-faces-vote-of-confidence-what-can-we-expect\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T09:15:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T07:15:32","slug":"german-chancellor-olaf-scholz-faces-vote-of-confidence-what-can-we-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/german-chancellor-olaf-scholz-faces-vote-of-confidence-what-can-we-expect\/","title":{"rendered":"German chancellor Olaf Scholz faces vote of confidence: what can we expect?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136067\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>The German Bundestag will hold of confidence in Chancellor Olaf Scholz&#8217;s government later on Monday. Euronews has summarised what exactly it is and what happens afterwards. The German Bundestag is holding a vote of confidence for Chancellor Olaf Scholz today.After the collapse of the German &#8221;traffic light coalition&#8221; and Scholz governing with a minority coalition consisting of the SPD and Green parties, the Chancellor had promised to call a vote of confidence. Scholz formally submitted the motion to Bundestag President B\u00e4rbel Bas last Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The vote of confidence is a political means by which the Federal Chancellor can check whether or not the Bundestag trusts him and his policies. It was introduced into German law after the Second World War to ensure that the Federal Chancellor could not dissolve the Bundestag on his own. So far, the vote of confidence has been called five times in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany. The last time was almost 20 years ago by former SPD Chancellor Gerhard Schr\u00f6der.<\/p>\n<p>The vote of confidence is regulated by Article 68 of the German constitution. It also states that the motion of confidence must be received at least 48 hours before the vote. Scholz met the deadline with his motion last Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Scholz will justify his motion in a short speech to the Bundestag. The motion will be decided by means of a roll-call vote. It is generally expected that Scholz will lose the vote of confidence &#8211; in other words, that the majority in the Bundestag will no longer have confidence in him and his government. His SPD party currently holds 207 seats in the Bundestag. The remaining coalition party, the Greens, has 117 seats.<\/p>\n<p>In total, the MPs of the two parties would therefore not reach the majority of 367. Additionally, some Green MPs have already announced that they will abstain. If Scholz loses the vote of confidence as expected, he will then propose to Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier that the Bundestag be dissolved.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/12\/16\/german-chancellor-olaf-scholz-faces-vote-of-confidence-what-can-we-expect\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/12\/16\/german-chancellor-olaf-scholz-faces-vote-of-confidence-what-can-we-expect\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vau-viikkokatsaus\/german-chancellor-olaf-scholz-faces-vote-of-confidence-what-can-we-expect\/\">German chancellor Olaf Scholz faces vote of confidence: what can we expect?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[17337,606,607,608,17338],"class_list":["post-136067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-olaf-scholz","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien","tag-vote-of-confidence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}