On December 8, local time, the new German Chancellor Schultz and all members of the new government cabinet were sworn in at the German Bundestag in Berlin.
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.
In the afternoon of the same day, Schultz and Merkel held a handover ceremony at the Berlin Chancellery.
The ministers of the new government also started new work that day.
(Producing Li Jiali)
Editor in charge: 【Luo Pan】