2023-11-28 21:04:59
By Pierre Avril
Published 2 hours ago, Updated 2 hours ago
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (right) with Finance Minister Christian Lindner and Economic Affairs and Climate Minister Robert Habeck (left to right) at the Bundestag in Berlin on Tuesday. LIESA JOHANNSSEN/REUTERS
The German Chancellor tries to reassure before the Bundestag after the sanction of the Constitutional Court.
Correspondent in Berlin
In the space of two days, CSU President Markus Söder, his AfD counterpart Alice Weidel, and the radical left called for early parliamentary elections. Even if the Bavarian conservatives, the far right and Die Linke only occupy 27% of the seats in the Bundestag, their appeal demonstrates the extent of the crisis facing the Scholz government since the sanction pronounced by the Constitutional Court against the federal budget. The chancellor’s eventful appearance in front of the Lower House this Tuesday, to the jeers and sneers of the opposition, barely counterbalanced by the ritual applause of his camp, crystallized the deleterious atmosphere which grips German political life, ‘ordinary politeness.
“You are a plumber of power, and the chancellor’s shoes are twice too big for you,” attacked opposition leader Friedrich Merz, accusing his opponent of “endanger prosperity” of…
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