German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Finance Minister Christian Lindner broke his confidence “too many times,” after he dismissed his coalition partner and tabled a vote of confidence in parliament for January 15. Lindner leads the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP), a junior partner in Scholz’s centre-left coalition government, and has been clashing with the chancellor’s Social Democrats and the Greens on economic policy for months. After announcing the dismissal on Wednesday evening, Scholz said Lindner had been too preoccupied with his own support base and the short-term survival of his own pa…