Germany will hold snap general elections on February 23 following the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's center-left coalition, according to parliamentary sources speaking to dpa and AFP news agencies on Tuesday.
The sources said parliamentary leaders from Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD) and the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) reached an agreement on the date on Tuesday.
Scholz is expected to call a vote of confidence in the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, on December 16 to enable the election to be held.
The collapse of the three-way ruling coalition was triggered by Scholz's firing of his finance minister, Christian Lindner, from the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP), which led to the FDP's withdrawal from the government.
The FDP pullout left Scholz without a majority in the Bundestag.
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