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Sahra Wagenknecht, the chair of the eponymous Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), has criticized German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s plan to wait until January 15 before calling a vote of confidence in parliament. “The chancellor’s timetable is a protraction of political insolvency,” she told the t-online news portal. Wagenknecht further criticized Scholz’s lengthy statement in which he justified his decision to dismiss Finance Minister Christian Lindner, the leader of the governing partner Free Democrats. “Instead of using this evening to apologize to citizens for the last three years, the man who …