Monday, October 9, 2023
The worst chancellor of all time? Olaf Scholz only has one option
Moin.de
The worst chancellor of all time? Olaf Scholz only has one option
Article by Marcel Görmann •
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The next election claps for the traffic lights! In Bavaria, only one in four people vote for the SPD, Greens or FDP. Thanks to Chancellor Scholz's eternally divided chaos government, the AfD also becomes the second strongest force in Hesse.
It's halftime for the coalition. Either this tragedy of the eternally divided traffic light coalition continues like this. Then the whole thing ends in 2025 at the latest with an AfD over 20 percent and a CDU chancellor. The self-proclaimed “progressive coalition” would have failed itself and done the country a disservice.
Olaf Scholz has to ask the Bundestag for a vote of confidence
Or Scholz shows courage – then he now has to ask the Bundestag for a vote of confidence! Clarity is needed: Do the FDP, Greens and SPD still want to continue working together under this Chancellor? If so, a sign of unity and stabilization is needed. Scholz could then finally take on the leadership role that he promised the voters.
Regulated in Article 68 of the Basic Law.
It is the Chancellor's instrument of power to get support in times of crisis.
Unlike the constructive vote of no confidence that can be used to overthrow a chancellor.
There have been five questions of confidence in the Bundestag so far.
Two of them were positive: in 1982 Helmut Schmidt was given a vote of confidence and in 2001 Gerhard Schröder was given the vote of confidence.
Is his chancellorship just a misunderstanding of history?
Scholz has announcements: “Climate Chancellor”, “Turning of Times”, “Germany Tempo”, “Germany Pact”. Big words, thought up by his PR consultants. But reality looks different. The electorate has little confidence in Scholz - especially not in getting the business under control. The economy is declining, the migration issue is becoming more and more urgent, housing construction is not making progress, its course in Ukraine remains unclear...
Was his election just a misunderstanding of history because the Union nominated Laschet instead of Söder? Scholz could go down in history as the worst chancellor of all time. As a “fly in the pan” of a chaotic legislative period between Corona, the war in Ukraine, the rise of the AfD and fears of asylum.