Scholz loses trust: New elections in Brandenburg on February 23!

Scholz loses trust: New elections in Brandenburg on February 23!

Brandenburg, Deutschland - On December 27, 2024, the Bundestag, under the government of Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD), withdrawn trust. This was done as part of an internal directional dispute over economic and budgetary policy. In the course of this development, Scholz also released the finance minister Christian Lindner (FDP) from the cabinet. The FDP then pulled out all its ministers from the traffic light coalition.

The trust vote, which took place on December 16, 2024, led to the Bundestag MPs Scholz as expected. As a result, early new elections in Brandenburg are scheduled for February 23, 2025. The last Bundestag election took place in 2021, in which Scholz and Baerbock competed against each other in the Potsdam constituency, whereby Scholz won the constituency.

Details on the new elections

The upcoming new elections are the first after the electoral reform of 2023, which introduced a limitation of the Bundestag to 630 MPs. Overhang and compensation mandates are eliminated, and the seat distribution takes place exclusively according to the second votes. To move into the Bundestag, parties must reach at least 5 % of the second votes or three direct mandates. The current election period began on October 26, 2021; Regular new elections would have been scheduled between August 27 and October 26, 2025.

Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier is now responsible for the final decision on the election date. It must correspond to the application for the dissolution of the Bundestag within a maximum of 21 days. In the event of a new election, a new Bundestag must be elected within 60 days, and the election notifications will be sent until the 21st day before the election. Voters can check their entries in the electoral register, there are ten Bundestag election circles in Brandenburg.

So far, the SPD has set up its state list for the Bundestag election 2025 on December 15, 2024. The AfD, CDU, the Greens and the Left have already prepared its state lists. In the 2021 federal election, the SPD in Brandenburg achieved 29.5 % of the second votes, followed by the AfD with 18.1 % and the CDU with 15.3 %.

premature new elections are rare in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany, but not without precedent. Scholz's question of trust has been the sixth since 1949. Previous cases in which the election period ended prematurely concern Willy Brandt (SPD) 1972, Helmut Kohl (CDU) 1982 and Gerhard Schröder (SPD) 2005. Federal President Steinmeier expressed the desire that the strength of German democracy was clear during the upcoming campaign and emphasized the necessity, many current problems solve, including the difficult economic situation, migration policy and the wars in the Middle East and in Ukraine.

Further information on the new elections in Brandenburg can be found at maz-online.de href = "https://www.spiegel.de/politik/neukahlen-bundpraesident-frank-walter-stein-loest-bundesag-auf-chlahn-23-february-200e14-402c-ba9d-e6f0d9379630"> Spiegel.de .