Germany's embattled Chancellor Olaf Scholz will face parliament this Monday to trigger the process towards 23 February elections, in the hope that he can weather a political crisis and win a second term.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will call on parliament today to declare it has no confidence in him, taking the first formal step towards securing an early national election following his government’s

Chancellor Olaf Scholz faces a confidence vote in the German parliament that he’s expected to lose. That will pave the way for the European Union’s most populous member and biggest economy to hold an early election in February.