Olaf Scholz finally delivers on dynamic promise as firing of Germany’s finance chief blows up his coalition

Olaf Scholz finally delivers on dynamic promise as firing of Germany’s finance chief blows up his coalition

It was a flashy end for the temperamental three-way “traffic light” coalition of Scholz’s Social Democratic Party , Greens and FDP. “But the coalition never made any fundamental changes to its political priorities after the Russian invasion, nor did they come clean with voters about the cost,” said Prof Klaus Schubert, political scientist at the University of Münster. “Instead, the coalition just muddled on.”

Lindner framed his last stand differently, suggesting in his farewell letter to ministry staff that resisting demands for extra borrowing was about “choosing my convictions over my office”. Studiously ignoring the president, and his former ministers, a stony-faced Scholz appointed as interim finance minister Jörg Kukies, a trusted adviser and former Goldman Sachs banker.

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