Green Party leaders sharply criticized former finance minister Christian Lindner, who was expelled on Wednesday from the German government, calling him selfish and saying he put personal politics over the national interest. “We shouldn’t have been looking at our election programmes and perhaps the next election,” Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck told the public broadcaster ARD’s nightly news program Tagesthemen on Wednesday. Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired Lindner, the leader of the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP), and called for a January 15 vote of confidence in parliament that could trigger ear…