after dismissing his finance minister christiane lin uh, who leads to business friendly, freed democrats. they foamed both of the countries to follow the coalition government with the greens, the confidence vault will likely trigger new parliamentary elections by the end of march. we expect to hear a live in the coming minutes from the head of the main, the opposition party, the christian democrats, or the c, d. u. but 1st, here's how schultz explained the decision to sac his finance minister. we have it in buddhist, i asked permission from the federal president to dismiss the finance minister. i was forced into this decision in order to prevent damage to our country. so then we need a government capable of taking action that has the power to make the right decisions for our country. and that's what i needed in the last 3 years. and that's what i need now. i made another extensive offer to the free democrats earlier today so that we can close the holes in the budget. and to avoid scrubbing our country into chaos, did you look at one of those house actually some going on? it was a long di

73 policy governing coalition is club stuff, such as the electrodes find the finance been as a christian, lin. yeah, in the a dispute over economic policy show says that he'll hold that confidence as in january, the likely trigger and, and the election ballot smith has more balance. this coalition of the left and the right is managed to hold together since 2021. but over the last few weeks, not coalition, zip has become increasingly strange and it's spectacularly imploded this evening. essentially because on the right, the finance minister kristin lynn. he wanted to cut taxes and benefits to put germany to try to improve germany's economy. while all of shots of chancellor wanted to increase its funding and increase, following partly the way the funding for the war and ukraine, it means now that we're going to have a vote of confidence sholtes, he's calling about have confidence in january. he's almost certainly going to lose that, which will lead to elections in march, which again, is possible. i'm a certainly lose with the opposition on the right, looking to make gains in not election if it