History of Germany since 1990 Helmut Kohl was reelected as Chancellor for his fifth and last term. The ruling liberal-conservative coalition government, consisting of the CDU/CSU and the FDP, lost the German federal election, 1998, and Gerhard Schröder was elected as Chancellor, the head of a coalition government consisting of his own SPD party and The Greens. Joschka Fischer, a leading Green politician, became Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister. Shortly after the formation of the government, Minister of Finance Oskar Lafontaine, a former SPD chairman and rival of Schröder, resigned from the cabinet. He was succeeded as Minister of Finance by Hans Eichel. In 1998,
The Monk Who Became Chief Minister The Monk Who Became Chief Minister The Monk Who Became Chief Minister is a biography of Yogi Adityanath, the 21st Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. It is written by Shantanu Gupta, an Indian Author and Political Analyst. The book has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing, India and came out on August 25, 2017. The cover of the biography was released on 23 July 2017 at an event of CREDAI at Lucknow. The biography has four sections. The first section is about the current role of Yogi Adityanath as the Chief Minister of Uttar pradesh and his first days in office.