German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will not attend the upcoming COP29 climate summit in Baku as he grapples with a political crisis at home that is deepening the European leadership vacuum at this year's talks, Bloomberg writes. Scholz was due to attend UN climate talks in Azerbaijan next week. at the start of the leaders' summit talks.
But he canceled that plan to help deal with the consequences of his call for early elections, the agency writes, citing a source familiar with the matter. Earlier, German newspaper Bild, referring to the chief of staff of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Wolfgang Schmidt, reported that the German Bundestag ( (parliament) extraordinary elections may take place on March 9, 2025.
Earlier, Scholz announced that in the beginning of 2025, he will raise the question of a vote of confidence in the government in the Bundestag, and the extraordinary parliamentary elections can be held by the end of March 2025. Minister of Finance Christian Lindner. On the evening of November 6, a meeting of the coalition commission took place, where the partners tried to find a solution to the dispute over how to get the country's economy out of the crisis. The reason for the split is the differences in budgetary, financial and economic policies.
Later, the chancellor himself, making a special statement, noted that he suggested to German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to fire Lindner. In this regard, the leader of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) faction in the Bundestag, Christian Duer, stated that the Free Democratic Party of Germany The ministers of the party completely leave the ruling coalition. In the German government, representatives of the FDP held four portfolios: finance, justice, research and education, as well as transport.
As for Baku not participating in COP 29, it was revealed earlier that European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen, French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin will not go to the climate summit to be held in Azerbaijan.
Source: news.am
