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		</div><p>Germany’s governing coalition has collapsed after Chancellor Olaf Scholz dramatically fired finance minister Christian Lindner in a late-night move after a marathon of crisis meetings.</p>
<p>The three remaining ministers of the Free Democrats also resigned soon afterwards, effectively leading to the government coalition’s collapse.</p>
<p>Mr Lindner will receive his certificate of dismissal from President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Thursday afternoon and, to ensure a smooth transition, a successor will likely be named right after.</p>
<figure id="attachment_184794" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-184794" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/IMG_6811.webp" alt="" width="640" height="427" class="size-full wp-image-184794" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-184794" class="wp-caption-text">Germany’s minister of finance Christian Lindner makes a press statement following his dismissal by the chancellor in Berlin</figcaption></figure>
<p>The posts of the research, transport and justice ministers who resigned may also be filled on Thursday, German news agency dpa reported.</p>
<p>Dpa also reported that Jorg Kukies, an economic adviser to Scholz, will become the next finance minister.</p>
<p>Mr Scholz announced late on Wednesday that he would seek a vote of confidence on January 15 that he said might lead to an early election as soon as March — which otherwise would have been be due next September.</p>
<p>He had accused Mr Lindner of breaching his trust and publicly calling for a fundamentally different economic policy, including what the chancellor said would be tax cuts worth billions for a few top earners while at the same time cutting pensions for all retirees.</p>
<p>“That is not decent,” Mr Scholz said.</p>
<p>Mr Scholz’s left-leaning Social Democrats will now effectively lead a minority government with the remaining coalition partner, the environmentalist Greens.</p>
<p>The chancellor announced late on Wednesday that he would reach out to the leader of the biggest opposition leader in parliament, Friedrich Merz from the centre-right Christian Democrats, to confer on possible ways of strengthening the economy and defence, and passing important legislation through parliament.</p>
<figure id="attachment_184795" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-184795" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/IMG_6812.webp" alt="" width="640" height="427" class="size-full wp-image-184795" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-184795" class="wp-caption-text">Germany’s minister of finance Christian Lindner, right, gets into his limousine in front of the Reichstag building after his dismissal</figcaption></figure>
<p>The collapse of the coalition came after weeks of disputes among the coalition partners over ways to boost the country’s ailing economy.</p>
<p>Mr Lindner’s pro-business Free Democrats had rejected tax increases or changes to Germany’s strict self-imposed limits on running up debt.</p>
<p>Mr Scholz’s Social Democrats and the Greens wanted to see major state investment and rejected the Free Democrats’ proposals to cut welfare programmes.</p>
<p>However, pushing through new legislation and plugging the billion-euro hole in the 2025 budget will not become easier for Mr Scholz’s Social Democrats and the Greens as their government no longer has a majority in parliament.</p>
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The governor of the German state of Bavaria, Markus Soder, a leading figure in Germany’s centre-right opposition, said that an early election should be held earlier than March.</p>
<p>“No more time can be lost now,” Mr Soder wrote on X, formerly Twitter, as he called for a new vote and government quickly. “There must be no tactical delays.”</p>
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