COLOGNE, Germany
Germany's Defense Minister
Christine Lambrecht (pictured) on Monday formally announced her resignation.
The move comes after German
media outlets reported on Friday that the defense chief intended stepping
down after a much-critisized New Year's Eve message she posted on social
media.
In her message, Lambrecht had
mentioned the war in Ukraine with the sound of fireworks in the background.
Members of the opposition
Christian Democratic Union (CDU) called out the message as tone deaf and urged
her to resign.
Lambrecht is
from Chancellor Olaf Scholz's center-left Social Democratic Party
(SPD).
Following the controversy,
Scholz had said that he still had confidence in Lambrecht.
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