{"id":244835,"date":"2025-02-23T07:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T07:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/23\/german-election-voting-under-way-after-campaign-focused-on-economy-and-migration\/"},"modified":"2025-02-23T07:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T07:55:11","slug":"german-election-voting-under-way-after-campaign-focused-on-economy-and-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/23\/german-election-voting-under-way-after-campaign-focused-on-economy-and-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"German election: Voting under way after campaign focused on economy and migration"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Voters are heading to the polls in Germany’s general election.<\/p>\n

They are electing a new parliament after a campaign focused on the state of Europe’s biggest economy and calls to restrict migration.<\/p>\n

The vote also comes at a time of fragile relations between Europe and the US over Ukraine’s future in its war with Russia.<\/p>\n

Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a confidence vote in parliament<\/strong><\/a> last December, paving the way for an early election.<\/p>\n

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Mr Scholz<\/a><\/strong>, leader of Germany’s centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), had governed as the head of a fractious three-party coalition until it collapsed the previous month<\/strong><\/a> when he sacked his finance minister.<\/p>\n

He had weeks of disputes with Christian Lindner over how to kickstart Germany’s stagnant economy.<\/p>\n

Mr Lindner and his colleagues in the Free Democrats Party (FDP) promptly quit the coalition, leaving the SPD and their remaining partner, the Greens, without a majority in parliament.<\/p>\n

Germany’s<\/strong><\/a> constitution does not allow the Bundestag to dissolve itself, so a confidence vote was needed to set in motion the early election, which is being held seven months ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n

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Opposition leader Friedrich Merz, of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, has vowed to revive the stagnant economy and defend Europe’s interests in the face of a confrontational White House.<\/p>\n

The far-right, anti-immigration Alternative for Germany is looking to make gains – but has no other party willing to go into government with it.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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