BERLIN: After Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-way coalition fell apart, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier dissolved Germany’s lower chamber of parliament on Friday, setting the stage for early elections on February 23.
“Especially in difficult times, like now, stability requires a government capable of acting, and reliable majorities in parliament,” Steinmeier stated in Berlin, arguing that early elections were the best course of action for Germany.
Steinmeier noted in a speech that problem-solving needs to be the primary focus of politics once more after the elections.
The president, whose position has mostly been ceremonial since the end of World War II, also demanded that the election campaign be run in an open and equitable manner.
