After the federal government of Germany has imploded within 24 hours of Trump winning the election, things are still extremely disgraceful.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) has declared that a vote of confidence is to be held on January 15 of the new year, with a new general election to be held by March or April.
This would lead to the government being unable to run and also without a federal budget until then.
Heads of CDU, CSU, and AfD have already protested and demanded a vote of confidence as soon as possible.
Now this all sounds boring and dry, why am I reporting about it here?
While this shameful behavior has been ongoing, the federal election administrator - who is supposed to be an independent authority - has publicly declared, with a lot of media attention, that holding a general election now is dangerous for our democracy.
Because of a lack of paper.
Like, the paper that ballots and mail etc. have to be printed on.
To conduct a general election.
Even though the federal election administrator has made contradicting statements just days before the government implosion.
Even though the 60 day deadline in Germany is already much bigger than in other democratic European countries, for instance, France managed to do a new general election within 21 days.
Even though the German paper industry association has publicly said that this is clearly false and there is no lack of paper.
I'm not making this up.
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