China News Agency, Berlin, December 8 (Reporter Peng Dawei) The new German Chancellor Schultz and all members of the new government cabinet were sworn in at the German Bundestag in Berlin on the 8th.
In the afternoon of the same day, Schultz and Merkel held a handover ceremony at the Chancellery, and the new government was officially put into work.
On the same day, the German Bundestag elected Schultz as the Federal Chancellor of Germany with 395 votes of the "majority required for the election of the Chancellor".
Scholtz and cabinet members then went to the presidential palace to accept a letter of commission from President Steinmeier.
After that, Scholtz and cabinet members were sworn in to Speaker Bath in the Bundestag.
So far, nearly two and a half months after Germany's general election on September 26, the formation of a new government has been officially completed.
Scholz was born in 1958 in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, and grew up in Hamburg.
He was the German Federal Minister of Labour, the Mayor of Hamburg, and the German Deputy Chancellor and Minister of Finance.
With the inauguration of Scholtz, the domain name used by the German Chancellery’s official website for sixteen years was changed from bundeskanzlerin.de, which represents the term "female prime minister", to bundeskanzlerin.de, which represents the term "female prime minister", to "male prime minister" bundeskanzler.de.
In the afternoon of the same day, Schultz and Merkel held a handover ceremony at the Berlin Chancellery.
Schultz expressed his gratitude to Merkel for her work during her tenure as prime minister in the past 16 years.
He told Merkel: "The era when you served as prime minister of this country was a great era."
Merkel congratulated Schultz on his election as prime minister.
She said that what Scholz took over was a fascinating job and a team ready to go. She sincerely wished Scholz a smooth and successful career as a prime minister.
The ministers of the new government also started new work that day.
As the new crown epidemic in Germany is still very serious, the new Minister of Health Lauterbach, who is a public health expert, said that the most important task of his department is to end the epidemic in Germany, and for this reason, it will promote the injection of vaccines as soon as possible.
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