Late on 6 November, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced the dismissal of Finance Minister Christian Lindner from the Cabinet amid intractable disagreements between the three parties in the federal ‘traffic light’ coalition, Scholz’s centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), the environmentalist Greens of Economy Minister Robert Habeck, and Lindner’s pro-business liberal Free Democrats (FDP). Lindner pulled the FDP from the coalition, leaving a minority SPD-Green administration in power.
Below we highlight key comments regarding the German political situation from a collection sell-side analysts.
