(FILES) Designated German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (C), co-leader of the Greens and designated German Minister for Economy and Climate Robert Habeck (L) and the leader of the free democratic FDP party and designated German Finance Minister Christian Lindner (R) leave the Futurium venue after a signing ceremony in Berlin on December 7, 2021, where leading members of Germany's social democratic SPD party, the Greens and the free democratic FDP party sealed their coalition deal to form a new government. Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired his rebellious finance minister Christian Lindner on November 6, 2024. The move came amid a tense row threatening the three-party coalition government between Scholz's Social Democrats, Linder's Free Democrats and the Greens. (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP) (Photo by TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP via Getty Images)