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unforgettable welcome to the program we saw with breaking news here, and germany. chances are shelves as called the confidence of voted for mid january . after dismissing his finance minister, christy and lynn s from the business from the free democrats who form part of the country string by coalition government. with the greens and the chancellors s p. d . navy confidence vote, according to the new parliamentary elections by march in the last hour, john, so the shouts explained, his decision that is happening. and when did i ask permission from the federal president to dismiss the finance minister? i was forced into this decision in order to prevent damage to our country so that we need a government capable of taking action. that has the power to make the right decisions for our country, and that's what i needed in the last 3 years. and that's what i need now. i made another extensive offer to the free democrats earlier today, so that we can close the holes in the budget. and to avoid scrubbing our country into chaos, did you look at one of the south central eastern con, owner ones,

a long distance calls system? let's get more from max hoffman dw is handed off news. welcome back max. so this sounds like a power play between the chancellor and his finance minister. the power play is over and send that there is no longer his finance ministers. so you could say that the power play that has unfolded over the last week is over. and i've rarely seen the press conference where there seems to be so much bundle of frustration towards a certain cabinet member, former cabinet member in this case. what else shows the german transfer called his former finance, this minister, twisty and disrespectful egoistic and small minded, among other things. so that gives you an idea of how much pens of frustration there wasn't for the last week. she also said, and this is

a rarity for this chancellor with a lot of emotion. i tried again and i tried again and i tried to again to find some compromises, but it was not possible with his finance minister. of course we're still waiting for the version of to send it to himself who is giving a press conference as we speak at the moment. and i think it's a given that he has a very different perspective on things then without showing the transfer. so as far as we can tell, what was the phone if contention between these 2 man it's, you know, it's, it's something that built up over this months at the very least, maybe even years now the, the latest drop that was too much. maybe you could say was a document that was done in the well published is probably a little too much because it wasn't really destined for the public. but then it found its way into the public on how to basically save the german economy. that is,

in a very severe crisis, as you know, and the ideas that were in there are incompatible with the other coalition partners . as you know, in germany, a government is usually made up of different parties that form a coalition to have the necessary necessary votes and majorities in, in, in parliament. and this coalition has always been difficult because it will unites 3 different parties from 3 very different directions of pardon the very left social democrats. also parts of the greens are pretty far left and the asked if he is a liberal or business friendly party that has very different ideas of how to revive the economy with the budget cuts. for example, also tax cuts for the rich and having less money for the social systems in germany . something that the social democrats are unable to to accept or said that they are unable to accept. and so this documents that i could see on the road up and handed

over to his coalition partners was called by may a declaration of war. but we have suspect that we had suspected, as many experts had that christie on this, i was looking for a way out of this cold listen for a a longer time. and so today, again, that's a shots version. he said he, he gets, he made a new offer to try to find some compromise. and when this compromise was rejected, he didn't see another possibility, but to well fire down river, because he would, he thought he said, would be irresponsible to keep working with him further on the confidence of others in january. know now why the 16th of january, he said that his plan was to uh, bring the most important laws that don't have, you know, you cant wait basically until probably until the end of the year and see if he can

get the majority with those. and then 1st thing basically in january have the vote of confidence. 15th of january is the date that was mentioned. and if he doesn't get the confidence of the problem and then the german president would have 21 days to, to solve parliament and have a early elections. but the shots, the german chancellor also said that he was going to talk to the big to the opposition party. the opposition parties that he is willing to talk to. in this case, the christian democrats to see whether they could cooperate one way or another. but the vote of confidence, that's something that's now set in stone and might lead to early elections next year. okay, so there's this, speculation max is that christy and lin wanted out of this because he saw his, his pocket being damaged by its association with that, that the coalition in the middle of a crisis seems like we,

it's time for any responsible government to try and hold on election. so way do you see the sky? what do you think is the the, i appreciate the speculation, but what, what do you think about the likely outcome of, of that face confidence about come january. since you're right, it seems like the a c p. uh so the business friendly liberals have to sell in a saw themselves back, backed into a corner. as you know, in germany, you need to pass a certain threshold to even get your receipts in in parliament. this threshold is 5 percent. if you don't get more or if you don't have 5 percent or more of the votes, there won't. you won't have any seats in parliament or right now in the polls. the ftp is sort of between 3 and 4 percent. if i recall this correctly, so if there were elections right now, it seems that the, according to the polls,

at least they, they wouldn't be represented in parliament anymore. that serious, you know, for any party right now. and, and so the calculation here seems to be educated guess at this point that he thinks he'll get credits for ending this. uh, uh, not very beloved coalition that has not a very good standing with the german populations. now who's doing very well in the polls though, is, are the christian democrats, they're well above 30 percent at the moment. and if we have elections right now, the polls are correct even within the margins of error, that is very likely that they would provide the next chestler in this case for the police man who is the chairman of the christian democrats. and also the official candidate for chancellor of that party. and the question of course as always in germany is with whom he would form a coalition because also very strong in the polls is the extreme right. a

fee that has done very well in the past regional elections this fall. okay, thanks for guys through that max max hoffman. if the w is the head of news. all right, let's take a closer look at how base ruling coalition reached breaking point. the tensions between the parties in germany's government had been growing for some time with economic policy, causing the biggest clashes between the chancellor, olaf, schultz, economy minister, robert havoc and finance minister 1st general in there. the next election wasn't scheduled until september of next year. now it looks like it might happen in march and campaigning. we'll be getting a lot sooner. next, mid gigabytes partial bad. i find that totally irritating and also super disappointing. i have the feeling that we're already in election campaign mode. so

stuff people are no longer interested in finding real solutions within the group, but only in positioning themselves with it to me, i think that this one, i think it's an unworthy spectacle. that's happening at the moment. one working against the other with no common ground that can be established. the disagreements at the center of the collapse revolver on how to revive jeremy slightly economy, which shrink last year and barely avoided recession this year. the country continues to struggle with high energy costs and fears, competition from china, particularly in the automotive market. both consumer and business confidence is low . and what else? germany faces and nearly 10000000 euro gap and next years budget. how can i get out of this mess? that's the question. how back and lender have very different answers to callback believes targeted government spending will stimulate the economy. what lender wants spending costs as a soft and climate regulations? one thing everyone can agree on is that the divisions are damaging to all parties

and that the collapse comes at a particularly bad time for germany. jerry and i, the future policies of us president elect donald trump, are expected to pose a huge challenge to european trade and security. and now germany long regarded as europe leader and international issues is distracted by domestic affairs. 5 or 6 full. this is matthew conduct yang. who's that chief and you would have correspondent out political joins us from color. welcome, matthew. what was this taking a ton positive? i'm germany's economy is the heart of this problem. why has it been struggling or oh, it's been, it's been strongly for a number of reasons. but the main reason i think can be found in the auto industry, which sort of missed the boat. on the electric vehicle revolution, the german and car makers were for a long time convinced that the internal combustion engine was going to be here

forever. so they didn't invest in electric vehicle technology in particular batteries. and now they've sort of been bid left flat footed. and some people might have heard the news that vw is closing a number of plants in, in germany. i think it'll be a lot of layoffs. and you know, this is also hitting the car parts sector. so it's not just limited to the big name, car makers that we know it's, it's going to have a massive impact across the german, german industry writ large. and beyond that, i, you know, they, they've, they're really kind of suffering from the effects of the war in ukraine as well. and from the, the difficult trade races with, with the united states, which you just started under donald trump, who introduced tariffs on on steel and some of the goods, but have continued under president bivens. so the german economy has been in this

kind of cycle of, of stagnation. but at the end of the day, the real problem is that the economy is still rooted in 19th century technology, whether we're talking about cars or machinery or chemicals and that type of thing. and they haven't really succeeded in coming up with, you know, new new innovations and the technological space to okay, so we have a job, an economy struggling, the gentleman, a business, a finance minister apparently looking for a way out of the coalition. and finally, guessing it might be a set up by the chancellor. we expect coalitions sometimes to be to be fractures. but this sounds like more than you would expect, normal coalition politics to well, this was actually, you know, a difficult marriage from, from the outset. and it, it was, it was based on

a set of assumptions that turned out to be completely false. namely that the government would have a lot more money to spend. and what happened was, was that the constitutional court in germany came in and looked at the government's 1st budget and said that it was, it was unconstitutional for, you know, complicated reasons that we don't get in and need to get into. but the long and short of it was, is that they didn't have the money that to spend that they thought they were going to have. and this is a particular problem for a christian listener. the finance minister who comes from a disagree, hawkish party, the 3 democrats, they believe in germany's debt break, they don't think that the country should spend beyond this means, etc, etc. and this created this kind of collision course. so tonight was the inevitable outcome of this. i think a lot of people saw this coming for a long time. i, you know, certainly we lived a good did i, we wrote over the summer that it was just a matter of, it's not when schultz was going to lose his job as jazz. the in this,

in this call is because it was just clear that you know, that this thing was gonna go off, go off the tracks and, and that, that happened tonight. i guess he formerly may have fired lived there. but you know, lintner basically handed him his resignation and told him to sign it. i think the more accurate description you see show you it's so you said you would be you're seeing shells no longer being had of his coalition. obviously if the ftp lose it do use the shelves leading this country beyond march. so excuse me, beyond the confidence voting. i know, i think i um, well maybe beyond the confidence so you know, on a, on an inner a basis, but certainly not after new elections that i would would be shocked if, if, if shots, uh would, would we in the, uh, the next election or the s p d would when under yeah, i think he's going to be to be finish.