Massive (Politisperg) Happenings in two large Western nations
Deutschland - German government collapses; Chancellor Olaf Scholz loses no-confidence vote, triggering snap elections
In Germany, Scholz (Social Democratic Party; SDP) lost a no-confidence vote to remain the Chancellor in the country's legislature. 394 lawmakers voted to dissolve the German federal government of the SDP and the Greens against 207 opposing and 116 abstaining, triggering snap elections to elect a new Chancellor and the new federal government in February 2025, nine months earlier than what is scheduled.
This is occurring as Germany is currently in its second year of recession, with the Germans providing the most funds out of Europe to arm Ukraine against the Russian invasion while being unable to compete in global markets against China. It is also occurring one month after the collapse of the ruling government coalition following Scholz dismissing Christian Lindner, the Minister of Finance and leader of the pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP), resulting in the FDP leaving the coalition and to turning the federal government led by the SDP and the Greens into a minority government.
The February 2025 snap elections will see the rise of anti-immigrant socially conservative pro-Russian parties of both the right-wing (Alternative for Deutschland; AfD) and the left-wing (Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance – Reason and Justice; BSW) as well as seeing more votes funneling into the more globohomo centre-right party Christian Democratic Union (CDU/CSU, the party of Angela Merkel).
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Leaf-Land - Following the resignation of an important cabinet member, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plans to resign
Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland, one of the most influential (and most corrupt) members of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet, has resigned right prior to her scheduled Autumn reporting of Canada's economic situation. Reports indicated of a fallout between Trudeau and Freeland as Canada is embracing over a
$60-billion-dollar deficit (as well as the nation being unprepared to go against United States President-Elect Donald Trump's proposed tariffs).
Freeland's resignation and the government no longer doing the Autumn economic update as is tradition has led to most of the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa calling for Trudeau to resign and a snap election in early 2025 (analogous to Germany), with many members of Trudeau's party joining in the fun and demanding a new leader of the Liberal Party.
The PR is so bad that Trudeau is considering resignation as Prime Minister of Canada or proroguing the Canadian Parliament (meaning that Canada's legislature will no longer function but it won't be dissolved).
It is to note that this is happening ONE WEEK right after Trudeau survived his THIRD no-confidence vote thanks to his allies at the New Democratic Party (NDP), but with Freeland's resignation, even NDP leader and India's most hated 'jeet Jadmeet Singh is regretting supporting Trudeau.
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