In this stability-loving country that is Germany, the scenario is written down to the comma. Olaf Scholz will run for the post of chancellor, in front of the 736 members of the Bundestag who, in their majority, will vote for him. Then he will go to Bellevue Palace on the other side of Berlin's Tiergarten park, seat of the Presidency of the Republic occupied by his social-democratic comrade Frank-Walter Steinmeier. There, he will receive his official act of appointment, before returning to Parliament to take the oath on the Constitution. Thus will begin, Wednesday December 8, and for four years, the mandate of the 9 Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Putting an end to sixteen years of the Merkel era, marked in part by inaction, the arrival of Olaf Scholz to power was a surprise.
Last spring nobody bet the slightest penny on a victory for the lackluster finance minister, who had been invested as a candidate for the SPD to make up for the lack of vocations within the party.
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