this is the day of the news coming to you live from berlin germany is governing body has a new leader it's on a good kind of power she takes over from under the vacuum as chair of the conservative c.d.u. but not as john says that she won in the second round runoff both at the party conference and. you're.

telling a very warm welcome to you on the thought she chose the angle of attack the c.d.u. party has a new leader delegates at the conservative party conference have elected ana get. to the post as the vote was very close but come on bol a big conservative rival for dick mats dubbed mini machall she was the chanceless favorite pick for success and make the ascent she will not contest the country's next federal election meaning. could become german chancellor in the future. even and i'm going to. retrace maps on the. delegates the guests i accept this position and results of the voting and frank you for your trust and i want to thank you by inspire scored eliezer to cuti by state that i would like to thank you bonnie. doing math with his fair competition it was really

. kind of up one day moon's under the qataris was a kind of competition that other political parties and vetoes for it was one that gave dynamism to the party and it was one and you will heard this in the speeches that my competitor is held as well that it was very much conducted in the spirit of fantasies and the spirit and this dynamism must continue and it must be linked with. that we all share namely to. do everything we can with all of the members all of the different opinions all of

the policymakers all of us together we need to be really centrist popular party that we have been in the past and i very much hope that you and maps work with me to achieve this is what the members expect of us and we all have our place in this party thank you. and for more have with me our senior political correspondent peter craven and did obvious chief political editor . is at the cd you bought a conference in hamburg usually party conferences and does routine affairs but not this one and. well certainly i'm going to america was elected of the past eighteen years every time in a coronation style vote and the only question is how big the majority was because she was the only candidates in fact this party hasn't seen such a contest since nine hundred seventy one so quite a unique moment and quite

a tough contest with all three candidates being very keen on being very fat. the big question now is how much the delegates here vote for i think it come combo of course offers a lot of continuity at the same time the two loses again spahn the health minister but a particular finish matzoh went into the runoff with her who came back from the business world to re enter politics after he lost the standoff with young the mac more than a decade ago they still want to play a prominent role so we're certainly in for a very interesting times here in the conservative c.d.u. party so interesting times for the c.d.u. says' be to tell us about a good kind what kind of for leader will she be like do you think i'm sure she'll be a very inclusive leader and i'm sure she'll be a very skillful leader she's a very smooth operator and i think she's also got real credentials as a winner however only of the lower in the little league history so well they're

only in the zoolander or a very small german state has been very successful there so she has got winning credentials the same time i think some of all he was. asking about her foreign policy credentials whether she has any it's all she doesn't has to be said so that's going to be she's going to her steep learning curve for and she has ambitious goals because she's so in today's speech she said that she would like to see a consolidated europe with a good p.r. army. but i have to say i don't read this a very frivolously europe will lead of the european army because in the near future it's not important continues to play games the way he has done in the last weeks or months. just a couple of days ago on a great career account got a ball came out on german t.v. and said that she would play hardball with whoever putin she would take a tougher road but i'm going america has perhaps taken so far this interesting mix of problems and of course the election off on a good followed a farewell speech by chancellor angela merkel as party leader let's take a listen to a bit of what she said to macarthur's well it is not that i am parting ways because

you do you i don't have to be party chair to have strong ties to this party and it's also not matter of me still being german chancellor the c.d.u. is going to be focusing on the time after me it is a matter close to my heart and the last term of my political affairs that i contributions for ensuring the new success of the studio whilst the same time maintaining responsibility nation to do to come in a government this is how we can set the course for the future. so this is a part of the chance america's favorite speech now a pizza with ana did come kind by the new party leader do you think a chance the meca will now remain chancet to the end of the term two thousand and twenty one as she once she's promising to do she's very dedicated in june to full politician she's a real pression in that are in that respect and she she's been elected for a four year term she says i'm going to say i'm going to carry out the whole avoids

and it has to be said that she really looks as though she she looked today during proceedings in hamburg she looked as though she's got an apartheid for politics and appetite for how proficient a.k.k. for making sure that this works when she was at the g. twenty last weekend with some of the world's tarion leaders she was a she fought her corner very well appeared to be up for that and earlier this week for example and here in germany she was to a digital summit in norm bagus a very special area for her digital economy artificial intelligence big data and all the things she was looking as though she was thought to get up and enjoying it so i think she's going to be a means to give her a k.-k. a good apprenticeship and who could be both a teacher on the international diplomatic stage and michelle knight. i'm going to american made this speech which got an ovation from off a seven between night to ten minutes she got a bit emotional advise at the end as she said farewell as spotty leader what do you think the legacy will be as the leader of the cd you. well it's

a very long leg legacy she looks back at eighteen years at the helm of the party she certainly builds the party also around her own policies she got a lot of support from the beginning because she herself launched a process of renewal when she was coming out of its funding scandal of course which essentially brought down helmut kohl as the overarching figure who didn't really hold a specific office anymore and now she managed to actually do something which might end up being the textbook withdrawal from politics in fact she chose the time when to step down as party leader she launched the woman into an office of party secretary general and it didn't come conboy who now succeeds in that very role clearly that was the tension although she never said it in as many words and the question now is when she will choose

a segue out of her role as chancellor legacy is of uniting the party one could say almost for better or for was rallying the party of around ideas but also. basically ruling from the top asking her party to follow her because that's the overarching figure she was self became in the end and that's why we saw policy turnarounds ranging from the double turnaround on nuclear energy fighting the fukushima disaster very lonely decisions she took without really checking all of the party backing there down to that what became known as the migration crisis what became also known as the open arms policy of not closing the borders it was very little consideration of criticism within her own party in that event she also led to that criticism that she's seed in recent years particularly in recent months that so will lose control over processes. the key process of voting for the

parliamentary leader of the c.d.u. she didn't get her favorite candidate through and that was course was the first signal that this party was no longer going to simply follow her now unexplained compound or has to build that up from the very beginning again but she already started in the role as party secretary general. and let's now take a closer look at an exit. and who she is as a politician. i need to come haven't by i shared a laugh with the german chancellor when i'm going to machall first propose her as the sea to use secretary general in february marco had forgotten that she herself was the first woman in the job there to see eye to eye on many issues sounding remarkably similar of the hot button subject of migration. we can do this yes we can do this we can do this if we use the christian c. in our party name as a compass and take the diva democratic seriously let's talk about policies again

instead of looking for the lowest common denominator. the two go back a long way in recent months on it they've come captain bar has been keen to shake off the title as many machall stressing their differences like his skepticism over same sex marriage and her interest in reintroducing a conscription like service for young people she also used the latest tension between russia and ukraine to call for a tougher line against russian president vladimir putin in addition to sanctions. plus we haven't asked the question how else we can make absolutely clear to him that the ends of sea must be kept open for international shipping. and it didn't come kavin by our earned her leadership credentials as stated premier of germany's smallest state of darla and there she proved only last year that she can win elections in difficult times for the c.d.u.

grassroots experience that sets her apart from her competitors for the party leadership. so basically when that we had that report. on the new cd yes this was a very close election why do you think she won. multiple factors i'm going to be very bored but i'm going to focus on one and that is the fact that she is a woman. i think of you know i think that there were there has been a bit of a divide to put it mildly n.c.d. you ranks down the years between the men in gray suits in smoke filled rooms make decisions and the women who are only being given access to the party slowly but surely over the years and not be humbled conference where the votes will close the day there were or there were thousands of delegates a third of those were wounded and a route that that's not enough obviously but it's still quite a chunk and a lot of them a real what this is subjective. from i feel

a lot of them said she is a woman and i will vote for her for that reason that is one factor why i will support this woman because she's just she's a good woman she's a good skillful politician and she's a shit what do you make of that comment that the defeat said of her being a woman a.k.k. being a woman was an asset but others would argue that you already have a chance that was the one with the two top seed you positions are held by women what is been the reaction to when that. one would hope that two women in top positions would be too much for the conservatives to handle but the bigger compound one must not forget spent the last couple of months touring the country on a listening tour her tosca deformable up until just over an hour ago as the secretary general of the party was to reform the party to work on a new program to reassess strategy so she's done a lot of listening and she's spoken to a lot of grassroots members of the c d's party so she has a lot of street credibility and she all also office continuity in the sense that

there's no upset within the margin i think these are things that really were on the positive side offering that closeness to michael right now at the cd you bought a compass in hamburg thank you very much for your analysis and peter craven industry thank you for your insights as well. let me bring you a recap of the top story the fear funding future the c.d.u. body has and new media delegates at the conservative party conference have elected on a day to come to the post it's more of a close vote but composite conservatives are driving the dick mats dubbed mini mag because she was the chance of those favorite pick all six make it has said she will not contest the country's next federal election meaning. could become german

chancellor the in the future. and that's it for me on the thought she might be due to the news business is coming up next the coughing meeting in vienna has agreed to cut production and the price of oil or britney reacting dozen more coming up with monica jokes. to. earth. tunes of species. we're seeing. here which is on those are big changes and.