Olaf Scholz will become Chancellor of Germany from the “traffic light” coalition

After two months of bargaining and negotiations that followed the elections to the Bundestag on September 26, a three-party coalition finally took shape in the German parliament, with Olaf Scholz as chancellor. His election by Parliament will officially end Angela Merkel's 16-year term in office.

The fact that the coalition agreement has been reached, and its details will be published later on Wednesday, November 24, is reported by Western media (for example, Bloomberg ). Also on Wednesday, a joint press conference will be held by all three parties of the "traffic light" coalition - the "red" Social Democrats of the SPD (to which Scholz belongs), the "green" and "yellow" Liberal Democrats from the FDP.

Olaf Scholz is reputed to be Merkel's successor, if not in party (the CDU/CSU lost both the elections and the battle for the coalition, and remained in the opposition), then in spirit. about him in detail The Bell wrote in the context of the balance of power in the elections.

In German parliamentary practice, a coalition agreement is a document of hundreds of pages. For Russia, the distribution of portfolios is of the greatest interest, and especially which of them will be received by the “greens” who advocate tough sanctions and are against Nord Stream 2.

According to Bloomberg, the leader of the Greens and opponent of the gas pipeline, Annalena Burbock, will become foreign secretary, and her co-chair Robert Habek will become the "super minister" of the economy with additional powers in the field of climate and energy policy. FDP leader Christian Lindner, a supporter of strict budgetary discipline, will retain the post of finance minister.

The same information about the distribution of key positions in The Wall Street Journal. Burbock's appointment, a critique of human rights violations and undemocratic regimes, is likely to change diplomatic focus in relations with autocratic countries such as China and Russia, which are Germany's key trading partners .