La Repubblica writes that Olaf Scholz may leave the post of German Chancellor early in 2024.
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An INSA poll conducted for BILD and published on December 31 showed that support for Germany’s Social Democratic Party fell from 20% to 15% during 2023. A key factor in the SPD fiasco, according to analysts, is that only one in five Germans rate the work of Chancellor Scholz, who represents the party, positively.
The largest Italian newspaper La Repubblica writes that Scholz may retire early in 2024. However, the publication does not name the sources of information. According to journalists, Scholz’s successor could be Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, who recently topped the ranking of the most popular German politicians.
The reason for the Chancellor’s resignation, as La Repubblica reports, citing two sources, may be the scandal that broke out back in 2020 with the Wirecard company and its boss Jan Marsalek (now he is probably hiding in Moscow). At that time, it was Scholz who headed the Federal Ministry of Economics and was responsible for the financial regulator, which failed to notice the largest fraudulent scheme in German history since the Second World War.
Scholz has always denied responsibility for this financial scandal. At the same time, the German Ministry of Finance rejected a request to make public the contents of meetings between Marsalek and representatives of the department.
In Germany, analysts doubt the reality of a change of chancellor: in particular, SPD members supported Scholz at the party conference. At the same time, Boris Pistorius recently called on Germany to “prepare for war” – recently the left wing of the SPD could probably demand expulsion from the party for these words.
Source: Racurs
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