Chancellor Olaf Scholz asked after the vote that the Bundestag be dissolved and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier is expected to set February 23 as the date for an election.
Following a huge protest which paralyzed the capital city of Berlin on Monday, the action has moved to another level: a blockade of supermarket and Amazon distribution centers, supply lines, cutting national supply lines and piling pressure on a government mired in a crisis of its own making.