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Change of government day
Merkel is leaving, Scholz is coming: Follow the Chancellor election live here
The two-kilometer stretch between the Reichstag building and Bellevue Palace will be used a lot today. Because there are the central scenes of the change of government in Berlin. Of the star reports live from the day of the Federal Chancellor election.
Around ten weeks after the federal election in September, the SPD, Greens and FDP take over government. First of all, the previous Vice Chancellor and Finance Minister Olaf Scholz (SPD) is to be elected as the new Federal Chancellor in Parliament. Then the ministers of the traffic light coalition are sworn in. An eventful day that we have here for you at star-Follow live blog.
The day of the change of government in the live blog
Bas pauses to count the votes. It should take about 30 minutes. During this time, the MPs are also allowed to take photos, as the President of the Bundestag specially announced. Let’s see what’s coming up on Twitter right now …
The call for Members to vote has now been completed. The President of the Bundestag Bas casts her vote in accordance with the rules.
Armin Laschet, who would have loved to have been elected Chancellor himself, finds appropriate and fair words about today:
https://twitter.com/ArminLaschet/status/1468500193926688774
Now was too Olaf Scholz called by name. Who will the Vice-Chancellor elect …?!
The satirists of “Extra3” also have something to contribute to the change of government – for everyone who now has to look for a new slogan:https://twitter.com/extra3/status/1468497288612007936
More and more blue ballot papers end up in the polls. Britta Haßelmann, one of the new leaders of the Greens, recently cast her vote. The election is secret, but you can guess how it voted … 😉
https://twitter.com/BerlinerNotizen/status/1468495544402206721?s=20
Lars Klingbeil’s tweet speaks proudlywho, as general secretary of the SPD, helped plan the successful election campaign. Now Olaf Scholz becomes chancellor and Klingbeil is to become party chairman.
https://twitter.com/larsklingbeil/status/1468478091098050566The deputy FDP leader Johannes Vogel makes an important observation: https://twitter.com/johannesvogel/status/1468495400483135490
When calling on the parliamentarians, you have now come to the letter “H” …
In the corridors in front of the plenary hall, the politicians called alphabetically meet: inside. Opportunity for a little chat across the political camps – e.g. between Annalena Baerbock (Greens) and Dorothee Bär (CSU).