Olaf Scholz faces calls for confidence vote after German coalition collapses
by Deborah Cole in Berlin from World news | The Guardian on (#6S1V4)
German opposition leader, Friedrich Merz, opposes timetable laid out by chancellor in news conference
Germany's centre-right opposition leader has called for an immediate vote of confidence to be held in parliament, after Olaf Scholz's ruling coalition collapsed.
Friedrich Merz, the chair of the former chancellor Angela Merkel's party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), stands to profit most from the bombshell developments in Berlin, one day after Donald Trump's election as US president upended the global political landscape.
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