German election: Scholz faces confidence vote

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called a confidence vote following the collapse of his coalition government. He is likely to lose the vote, paving the way for elections in February. DW has the latest.

• German Chancellor Olaf Scholz faces confidence vote in Bundestag
• The vote paves the way for snap elections on February 23
• Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD) are trailing behind Friedrich Merz's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in polls

Here are the latest developments about the confidence vote on Monday, December, 16: