As expected, Germany will head to the polls on February 23 after Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost his confidence vote in Parliament.
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00:00Germans will go to the polls to elect a new government on the 23rd of February next year.
00:05That's after Olaf Scholz called a vote of confidence in his now-minority government,
00:10which he lost on Monday.
00:12207 MPs in the Bundestag just behind me voted in favour of Olaf Scholz.
00:18However, 394 voted against with 116 abstentions.
00:24What that means is that we're about to launch into full-on campaign mode here
00:28in Europe's largest economy, roughly eight or nine months earlier than we had expected.
00:34There was supposed to be a vote in the autumn of next year.
00:36However, it's all come to the fore after the three-way coalition of the Social Democrats,
00:41the Greens and the Free Democrats finally fell apart.
00:44It was always a struggle between those three parties.
00:47They very rarely saw eye-to-eye across the cabinet table.
00:50It was last month when Christian Lindner was sacked for not being flexible enough,
00:55as far as Olaf Scholz said it, when it came to the debt break in the country.
00:59That brought about the Free Democrats pulling out of the coalition
01:03and brought us to the situation where we are now.
01:05All eyes on the 23rd and quite a long and ferocious campaigning period between now and then.