German election: Scholz loses confidence vote – DW – 12/17/2024
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called a confidence vote following the collapse of his coalition government. He has lost the vote, paving the way for elections in February. DW has the latest.
    • trollercoaster@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      11 months ago

      They will come back. As they do every time. Just wait one or two election periods, then they’ll be back under new leadership, with yet another flashy advertising campaign targeting dumb first time voters, who will, once more, fall for that trick.

      The FDP desn’t need many members nor many voters to maintain its financing, they get plenty of donations bribes in return for their services to the ultra rich. They can and will manage a few years with bad election results.

      • Melchior@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        I am honestly not too sure about that. The AFD has very similar positions and is able to actually win elections.

        • trollercoaster@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          If they actually win enough to gain power, there won’t be any future election periods anymore.

          I’d prefer not to contemplate that increasingly realistic possibility, but here we are.

    • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
      8·
      11 months ago

      I think the no-confidence vote to make way for new elections isn’t the bad part here. The bad part is this insane idea, that he can be successful again, after having had to end his government prematurely.

      The SPD already tried that move with Schröder. We got 16 years of Merkel out of it… And if the SPD would be anywhere close to the results Schröder achieved back then, they would party for three days straight.

      • trollercoaster@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        That, too.

        They aren’t only blatantly lying, they are stupid enough to believe their own lies.

        On the other hand, I’m not that sad about the SPD’s demise. Since Schröder turned them into a CDU in red, they are redundant. The problem is that nothing filled the giant void that the SPD’s reinvention as just another neoliberal party has left.

      • trollercoaster@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        13·
        11 months ago

        I’m genuinely surprised. Got too used to those bastards lying to me.

        Still an epitome of democracy with virtually all votes being cast strictly along the party lines. Looks like those overpaid muppets are sitting there just to represent their party leaders, not the people.

          • trollercoaster@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            3·
            11 months ago

            I know a few (former) SPD members who are quite pissed off at the party and what Schröder and Scholz turned it into. Their story is all the same. They are old-school social democrats who fail to see any social democracy in the party the SPD has become.

            tl;dr: Don’t trust people on the internet ;)

            I never have.

            Source: Am a person on the internet.

    • nomad@infosec.pubEnglish
      11·
      11 months ago

      He asked his own people to vote this way to force new elections