thing see to your it's of trees golf. jenny reset on the w the, this is the w news live from the land. germany is laid out. well, i've called it spaces a decisive votes as he fights for his political future. just moments from now, we will here shall it's make the case for why he should remain at the helm of government. he'll then face a confidence those in parliament that he is widely expected to lose. if he does that, we'll play the pol early elections. the menu keeps mccain, and thank you so much for joining us. here in germany,

it is crunch time for the in baffled trunk. so it will actually it's in a special session of parliament, but we will be bringing to you live shots is facing a vote of confidence that he hold off to the collapse of his governing coalition. he is widely expected to lose paving the way for new elections in february. now, cold show shots, his social democrats headed for the seat by the conservative opposition. but the far right and the policy is also ready to go on the attack. so unlikely to get enough support to govern the anti immigrant. you're a skeptic. policy sees the selection as a chance to push it for gender. so if you to give them a draft to pull them in the for the vote in just a few moments. in fact, it looks like he is about to start speaking minded president of the going to stuck . ladies and gentlemen, it is this big, this time in the history of germany that a german chancellor has used article 68 to ask for of the confidence twice.

it was my successes who were looking for support in their government coalition. in the other 3 cases, it was very bland hammer code and go troy to who used to go 68 to a low c elections. but either by and this is my in the building for these new elections, the citizens of this country will be able to decide on this. so and now putting the question to the citizens of this country. do we have faith in ourselves and our country, or are we prepared to risk our future? we risking our prosperity by delaying investments that alone needed and by offsetting investment in the army and

in the ukraine, against strong municipalities. and that most the health insurance company, these are decisions that must be put to feel that the dispute will not just cut out there for me to confront with the owners. let me know . and this point is that in november we what i asked the german government to release the finance minister because we could no longer proceed in business as usual in the coalition. this country politics is not a game. maybe some gentlemen here to get the zip to be sure. if you are going to enter into a government, you have to have a certain level of maturity and understanding what the youth is required.

if you entered into a government, you are responsible for the entire country responsibility that goes above and beyond your own party program. above and beyond your own constituency, bureau, and electorates. you are responsible for every single person in this country, the visa master. and it was on this basis that i formed coalition from 3 very different parties. it wasn't easy, but we were able to do it. so it has to be done because after the last national elections, we have to do justice to the electra and to vote. and for 3 years we managed to run this coalition to make decisions. we needed a lot of strength for this kind of my decision to end. the coalition also took a great deal of strength because it could not continue as it was

the, me. and i don't just mean the weeks that of sabotage that b f. these he undertook to undermine the government. some things came to light that not any damage, some of the government which damage democracy as a whole. as that is the damage that this c a to cause. the loading and border understands because we owe it to the citizens of this country to be decent. people who is this is for my notes, like i said, it's because of my decision to end. the coalition however, was something else. it was something far more significant. our family, the question was whether understand how we want to invest in our country for that

line resolutely or slowly and hesitantly and everything depends on this question, a security or prosperity in the future. the competitiveness of our economy, good education and social cohesion. and this comes from the judge. i know we're going to hear once again that the german economy is not growing as quickly as it should internationally. and it's true that we need more grows, but we have to ask ourselves how much faster could our economy grow if our infrastructure were the way it needs to be. if we had the grid, the power lines and the wind turbines that we need for a good green power provision time. and this is something that met some of the parties in this government that have been fighting and come back to for

years. the smart people take on it is true that you can save money in a short time by not in the short term by not doing these things, but we have to think long term and then the time has come to invest and invest time in germany. and this is something that hasn't happened even now recently, decades, and we must forget that we live in a new age today. they're new emerging economies in asia and africa and latin america and their lives to demand more stuff. a bigger piece of the pie economically globally, the decades in which closer and closer cooperation to fit insurance, stability, and increasing prosperity these times of gone. and we must not turn

a blind eye to the changes and i will find it. i'm trying to be that they didn't just and then time vito know, vote in the last elections in germany. what it could possibly have imagined the challenges that we've had to fight in the last 3 years. now, we have an atomic power of waging a war and you have just 3 hours flight from here, we have to massively invested in our armies in order to cope with these on frontier challenges. we are dealing with unfair competition. but for changes in the energy supply and many other changes that are impacting on our economy, many of our citizens. i'm wondering if this of them what this is going to mean for them. is it about me, my family, my village, my city's questions like this being asked and it's understandable. the trains late, the roads are not up to scratch and to stuff. and there's

a deplorable state of affairs when it comes with coupons and we're getting 5 g only now in germany. and we must tackle these problems. this is the job of generation for it is the job of our generation. maybe just and you 2 generations will come small, some not say that we were to resolute and tackling these challenges. now future generations are going to ask us why we didn't do what needed to be done for having the sake and leave now. and it's not just a matter of processing the backlog, we have to prepare for what's coming in that we need to have a new reliable energy system. future technology is like quantum technology like a i semi conductors, battery technologies. these are all things we urgently need in germany,

so that we can remain a strong industrial country, the structural problems that have increased over the use of part of the problem as well as to match. we offer c item and to many rubles reporting requirements to brussels that don't help anyone we are in the process of streamlining the scale to see. and we must continue with this project. the us, china and many other countries, a new ring investors with huge support programs and tax incentives and the world wide competition of the tough and jobs that have relocated elsewhere. never come back. but if we want to keep jobs and companies here in germany and have more from assist 1st as we to must small more incentives. otherwise we will not prevail in

competition. and for that we need more investment now and not someday and this is not something that all of the parties in the coalition best for her believe. but this month there must be an end to denying the truth of the situation . and for that we need a clear signal from our voters to new nobel prize award. evan mueller, for economy, said, germany's big economic problem is the city this crumbling infrastructure. and he's right, the o e c, d, and d, w f are begging us to invest more. and all of the federations, the trade unions, all of the economic analysts are advising us to do this. are they all wrong? or all of the countries who are investing massively now wrong. countries who have far less financial latitude than we do if there's one country in the world who can

afford to invest in the future. it's germany. the symbol of the g 7 countries, the strongest economies, lenses have over a 100 percent. that's a c d t. so times we only have 60 percent once we get to that. so we have to get things going and we have to do it now. have made suggestions as to how we can get germany, where it needs to be made in germany. bonus like in the u. s. as a boost if a private investments with stable energy prices for the power charges and $0.03 with a germany funds. and then the source and what time is the buy modernizing the debt

break in our basic the constitutions and my proposal in a month for that is so slow leak openings due to an end towards investment investing in germany's renewal and security in the coming term of office defense is going to have to be funded entirely from the current budget. 6000000 backs. 13000000000 more a year from 2028 at the latest. and then there's the coven pandemic that, that we have to pay off who's going to pay for this? the employers, the employees set the families on those. are we going to reduce investment down to 0? are we going to make cuts in nursing care and health? because pensions in a way that our country has never seen before. they started guns, scribbles, can cook, so i would say, i'm the, you know, that's month to your reducing pension,

and that is what many people are asking for. if you look at the christian democrats parts you program, so it is according to their party programs, you do use about the age at which people can retire should be things to, to, to, they're more talis you. right? so does that mean they should work until the 17th the engine, after paying into the pension system for 4 to 5 years, people shouldn't be able to retard. this is why the christian democrats are suggesting people who have worked the whole lives should not be able to address this is completely unfair. instead, we suggest stabilizing the pension level quickly, because guaranteeing pensions is something that is going to expire on the 1st of july. that's just 7 months away unless and if we don't increase this guarantees and

people's pensions was decreasing value year for year. what is that? if not shortening people's pensions the college of, of the program, the search by o, within 1st bridge, i won the last elections by promising that every citizen in our country would have a right to respect wherever this respect may come from, wherever these people come from, whatever they do wherever they live, it's fine. it's not just if you earn 250000 years a year that you deserve respected. also, if you go to work and earn that's true, minimum wage is that the everyone deserves respect. who is able to put.