The German Bundestag held a vote of confidence in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government. This took place more than a month after the collapse of the so-called traffic light coalition, ZDF reports. In the vote in the Bundestag,

Chancellor Olaf Scholz failed a confidence vote in the Bundestag on Dec. 16, paving the way for early parliamentary elections scheduled for Feb. 23.

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a confidence vote in the German parliament on Monday, putting the European Union’s most populous member and biggest economy on course to hold an early election in late February.