Social Democrat Olaf Scholz is already Chancellor of Germany

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The Social Democrat Olaf Scholz is Chancellor of

.

With the parliamentary majority of the parties that will form his coalition of Government assured, the only unknown that remained to be cleared today of the investiture session was the results of the vote, which the already former Chancellor

followed from the guest gallery.

It was by 395 votes in favor of the 707 cast,

than those held by the

(SPD),

and the

, the Government partners.

The

Democratic

(CDU), the populist

(AfD) and

(The Left)

voted against it

.

The legislature of the tripartite that

will lead

starts dominated by the fight against the pandemic, whose incidence continues to increase in the country.

One of the measures that the parliamentary majority of the SPD, Greens and Liberals will adopt in this regard will be

.

The challenges that Chancellor

will face

are in line with the expectations that this traffic light coalition has created in citizens with its promises of growth are increases in taxes, pensions and decent jobs for all, better education and health systems, digitization and respect for the environment. In foreign policy, the most imminent challenge for the new government is the crisis generated in Ukraine by the movement of troops towards its Russian borders. US President

yesterday informed the still Chancellor Merkel of the conversation with President

.

participated in it.

"We are going to carry out the biggest reforms that this country has undergone in the last hundred years,"

declared

after the signing of the coalition agreement with the

yesterday

, a 177-page document that sets out the main lines of this coalition. The fight against the pandemic will be the priority and for this, the parliamentary groups of the coalition have already launched a bill that will make vaccination mandatory. The bill aims to become law in March.

Scholz

will have a younger team than the last of the outgoing and equal chancellor in terms of gender, not so in relation to the origin of the ministers, which for the first time does not meet territorial criteria. For the first time, important ministries such as Interior, Defense, Cooperation and Foreign Affairs will be in the hands of women. The head of the latter department will be the ecologist

. No big changes are expected in the Foreign line, but more critical positions with respect to China or Russia.

The new Government will officially assume its functions once they receive in the next few hours the corresponding accreditation from the Head of State,

.

The ceremony will be held at the presidential headquarters, and it will be there when Merkel congratulates her successor.

The transfer of portfolios will take place this afternoon.

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