Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) hasn’t even asked for a vote of confidence yet – that will happen on December 16th – and yet there is already speculation in Berlin about the composition of the future government. Most observers and pollsters expect that the sister parties CDU and CSU will receive a relative majority in the elections on February 23 next year. Then their top candidate Friedrich Merz (CDU) would be a candidate for the office of Chancellor. In order to be elected by the Bundestag, he would have to form a coalition in which there would likely be a fierce tussle for ministerial positions right from the start.
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