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Former justice minister Marco Buschmann has bid farewell to Germany’s governing coalition with a song he composed himself. The piece, titled “Gehen um zu stehen” (Go in order to Stand up), can be played on the online music platform Soundcloud, where Buschmann posted it with the hashtag “Farewell” and the note: “Sometimes you have to give up something you love to stay who you are. You have to go in order to stand [up].” The song comes after the governing coalition of Chancellor Olaf Scholz collapsed on Wednesday when he fired his finance minister, FDP leader Christian Lindner, leaving just Scho…

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