A senior figure in the party whose departure from Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition three weeks ago put Germany on the road to an early election has resigned in a furor over an internal document whose title referred to “D-Day.
Federal Minister of Finance Christian Lindner , from left, joins Bijan Djir-Sarai, Free Democratic Party Secretary General, and Christian Dürr, Chairman of the Free Democratic Party parliamentary group, for a press statement after his dismissal by the Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz , in Berlin, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024.
The affair threatens to complicate further the Free Democrats’ campaign for an election in which polls already suggest they risk falling short of the 5% support needed to keep any seats in parliament., the Free Democrats’ leader, as finance minister on Nov. 6 as a long-running dispute in his three-party coalition over how to revitalizeScholz plans to call a confidence vote on Dec. 16. He is expected to lose, paving the way for an election on Feb. 23.
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