Scholz nominated as SPD party's chancellor candidate after weeks of doubt

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Germany's centre-left Social Democracts have chosen to officially nominate current Chancellor Olaf Scholz as their party's candidate despite his low approval ratings.

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00:00Olaf Scholz has been officially nominated by his Social Democratic Party as its candidate

00:07for German Chancellor, ahead of snap elections in February.

00:11Scholz is the current German Chancellor, but there were weeks of tense discussions within

00:15his party of whether he was the right person for the job.

00:20His ruling traffic light coalition, compromised of the Social Democratic Party, the Greens

00:24and the Liberal-Free Democratic Party, collapsed earlier this month after he fired his Finance

00:30Minister.

00:31Lacking a parliamentary majority, Scholz agreed to hold a no-confidence vote in December,

00:36with general elections set for 23 February 2025.

00:42Some Social Democrats had rallied around German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius, who enjoys

00:47higher approval ratings as a replacement for Scholz.

00:51Pistorius said he wasn't available to run for Chancellor last week, paving the way for

00:56Scholz at the top of the party's ballot.

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