FILE PHOTO: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Defence Minister Boris Pistorius talk at the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, in Berlin, Germany November 13, 2024. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner/File Photo
BERLIN (Reuters) - Olaf Scholz, Germany's least popular chancellor on record, is facing growing calls within his Social Democrats (SPD) to step aside and let his Defence Minister Boris Pistorius instead lead the centre-left party into next year's federal election.
Germany is set to hold a snap election on Feb. 23 after Scholz's ideologically diverse three-way coalition of SPD, Greens and neoliberal Free Democrats (FDP) collapsed last week following months of infighting.
