FILE PHOTO: A general view of the debate about possible snap polls in Germany, at the German lower house of parliament Bundestag, in Berlin, Germany, November 8, 2024. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner/File Photo
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's political parties agree on few things after Chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition collapsed last week following months of budget wrangling, but protecting the Constitutional Court from the far left and right looks likely to be one of them.
The departure from the coalition of the neoliberal Free Democrats (FDP) deprived Scholz's government of its parliamentary majority and left in limbo dozens of laws the coalition had been scheduled to pass in its remaining time.