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Joerg Kukies, a member of Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats and a close ally of the chancellor, will be named Germany's new finance minister, government sources told AFP on Thursday.

Scholz sacked previous finance minister Christian Lindner from the pro-business Free Democrats on Wednesday evening, leading to the breakdown of his three-party coalition government.

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