and that gets me back to your first question as an act of government in which social democrats. do excellent. work. we have to govern the country carefully while the literary talks collapsed. and there are other representatives to talk about the consequences of a social summit or you go to board refer to barbara hendricks and her work on the occasion of the climate summit they s.p.d. lives up to its response ability being a very active and very responsible part of the acting government. yes mr schultz. i'd like to repeat one question regarding the grand coalition did i understand you correctly that you said that you exclude

a grand coalition and the second is question is whether you have already been in contact with the chancellor. regarding the same question yes regarding the first question we believe that in your view of our current situation also in subject of the election result of the twenty fourth of the temple which you should remember on twenty fourth of september the party is. still forming the acting government namely the union and the s.p.d. who were the grand coalition these two parties have lost fourteen percent how clear are can a rejection of such a grand coalition the. parties. want to form a government as a you for parties. until a couple of days ago declared this prospective government as a history project of progress and.

is now ended. they haven't used the mandate that they. have given and therefore the mandate has to be returned to the voters again. mr schultz. you repeated and reconfirmed your rejection of a grand coalition i mean where are heading towards fresh elections aren't we now this rejection of a grand coalition that also true in case of recollections of us was in the framework of our constitution we have our constitutional organs that we need to make use of i.e. they federal my president. he's the one who needs to act out. and. what he does and when he does things determines when fresh elections would start with. the. president and

a parliament and need to take decisions before any fresh elections would take place and maybe a fresh elections take place and we're not shying away from them we believe they are right and we assume that fresh elections will take place and what the sovereign says about the composition of if your parliament remains to be seen. and in view of the situations that we're currently in they parties would be well advised not to exclude coalition negotiations also because we have seen that the current. parties are not able to govern the country. as once a focus on the entire country not serving one client. or not there to serve only one group of. people and therefore we would be heading and.

going for a government after fresh elections which has a clear social democratic character. you announced a comprehensive process of renewal in terms of personality content wise the s.p.d. chose deficits that need to be remedied in such a green you will protest but you have to deal with a party the way it is a party which has its deficits and you need to start fresh elections how can you be optimistic against a backdrop of like. i think we've done. good office during our election campaign what was missing in the very clear topic was the confrontation. you're aware of the strategy. of a governing party in years and i need. a election campaign we will

have to focus on climate change a future of labor. long term care future of europe we need to debate about whether germany once to sit idly by why billionaires bring their taxes into tax havens these are topics that we need to raise and focus on in an election campaign to make bring across the message that if you want to have a. country which is it for the future you will find good answers in our election program the very fact that we have to reorganize ourselves. that is true we need to take time to do that and we would get under pressure because of the events but my party is stronger and in terms of organization structures and so well positioned that we're going to cope with it and on mine. socials and i mean one question tomorrow you're going to meet the president if the president asks you to meet miss america and. to start

negotiations about a coalition what would you answer to the president now a chancellorship you said at the time you're going to decide whether you would run but what what would happen what other paramita house the second question. is a result of the first question i'm going to meet the president a day after tomorrow not tomorrow as far as i know. we planned to meet on wednesday and. i also draw your attention to the fact that article sixty three year after they constitution lays down various procedures the length of which cannot see first scene for the time being that largely depends on talks to be led between the president and the acting chancellor is also a constitutional. ms merkel and on into contact with me today

as i just briefly talked with the president of course we're going to hold talks with those. forces that are involved in this process that is the other party that's very clear but we're going to hold those talks with a very clear pattern in mind that should be the voters of this country to assess what. has happened and what has been brought about by the parties involved with very talk i'm not going to talk about the formation of a. grand coalition but of course you cannot reject a wish of the president to hold talks on. this is to achieve that it would be the voters of this country to take decisions instead of party. side of. the timeline linked with that. make it clear and the next weeks when a possible fresh election is going to take place and then i will make the necessary

proposals on behalf of the social democratic party now i'd like to know why do you exclude a. minority government tolerated by the s.p.d. and what will the as b.d.a. do during the next votes in parliament. talk about vote in parliament it depends on the topics that will be on the table. so we will follow our social democratic. principles if you focus on ireland for instance we're going to take a look at. the irish government in the context of tax evasion granting privileges to companies who make billions of profits that has to be considered when we have to discuss. whether we would grant and interest a privilege to the irish government you know that the irish government has filed.

against or ones to file suit against a ruling of the european union and then again apple so we will take a case by case decision in the parliament that will be discussed by the parliamentary group. the first question that you asked i. suspect to. the parties involved an ex-military talks which collabs i expect that ms merkel will talk to the president about what her plans are it's very interesting that the prospective coalition wasn't able to form a government and the protagonists don't say much other than sharing common wisdom so i believe the persons involved in the secretary talks need to show the responsibility. welcome back you've been

watching them martin shows the leader of the s.p.d. explaining why his party is standing by its decision not to enter into a coalition government with chancellor angela merkel that's after talks to form a coalition government here in berlin between merkel's conservatives the free democrats and the greens collapse there was hope that she could convince the social democrats to join in a coalition but mark shields just there announcing that will not happen the voters he said should be allowed to evaluate the situation he also said the s.p.d. is not afraid of new elections when he would stand again for chancellor if there are indeed fresh elections let's come back to sara brock meyers from the global public policy institute here in berlin sara does that come as a surprise to you does not come as a surprise that the s.b. do not want to enter another ground cornishman they've said this from the beginning and it was clear likely that they were not going to do that what i found surprising just now in mr schultz statement is the enthusiasm almost he expressed for fresh elections given that globally this is quite

a big event it's never happened that fast in german politics before and he was even starting to come pain right there and then in his first press.