Christian Lindner’s liberals are making demands for economic reforms that are hard for other coalition members to accept.

The three-year-old union between Scholz's Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Greens and Lindner's Free Democratic Party (FDP) had been on shaky ground for some time.

The chancellor said he would call a vote of confidence in his government early next year.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz sacked his finance minister on Wednesday and said he will hold a parliamentary confidence vote in the government in January, triggering political chaos in Europe's largest economy hours after Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election. After sacking Finance Minister Christian Lindner of the Free Democrats…

Germany's ruling coalition had been locked in a dispute over economic proposals pushed forward by the neoliberal FDP.

Germany's ruling coalition had been locked in a dispute over economic proposals pushed forward by the neoliberal FDP.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will hold a confidence vote in mid-January, which could trigger new elections by March.