for early elections in germany, triggered by a no confidence vote in the german parliament, a vote called by center left to transfer off schultz and the vote. he knew he would lose. charles now begins to fight for his political life against the conservative seat of the 2 mountains. it's already shaping up to be a tough campaign in tough times for germany, with a war in ukraine, a new president in the united states, and to a broken economy at home on top of the lease here in britain. this is the day the . today we are finally voting on the question of confidence not to do, let's be honest with each other in this selection campaign. the you are leading the country and one of the biggest economic crises in postwar history kind. no furniture in the last selection could have foreseen the challenges of what is

called mr. chancellor. you had your chance. you did not take this opportunity here . what was the last 5? we'll continue to give michael for germany every day on the escape. you are an embarrassment to germany, and for this i ask you for your trust, you, mister schultz, have not earned any trust. also coming of trouble in the neighborhood ahead of donald trump's integration, canada is deputy premier quits over the disagreements on how to handle the threats of new us terrace. seeing the events that the united states were to impose on justified terrorist on canada. of course, we would respond well to our viewers on p b. s in the united states and all around the world. welcome. we begin with a confidence vote in the german parliament only the 5th time in the countries

postwar history transfer off shouts tables the motion unexpected. he lost the move, pays the way for snap elections, which are not applied for late february and a little over 2 months. so shelters governing coalition collapsed after one of his 2 junior partners, the liberal, free democrats, quit the social democratic level government. last month, a 2 parties had long sparred over economic policy, prompting shouts to far f. d. p leader and finance minister can live. now. it was the final straw for the coalition. after months of internal squabbling after schultz lost his majority in parliament, the opposition conservatives who currently lead the opinion polls pressure the transferred to speed up his plan to call a confidence out. as the members of jim and his parliament gathered on monday, no lack of confidence was visible on the face of the shelves. jones let put the confidence question to the bill just to lead the 6th time. this has happened. but

he's a, goes to the school vote, paving the way for an early election, which he's already campaigning to, which isn't on downstairs. he didn't talk. and we're a country that goes together every day, a country that values because he's, you know, but the vision, a country that does not have its best days behind it. but i made it because i will continue to give my old rock country for germany every day. and i ask you, do citizens to put your confidence, inmate com, common thoughts on conservative opposition lead it? freed, reach methods likes to become the next john slough. when it's on the attack, he said, show homes gemini, is how you behave with a year, a pay a level is embarrassing. you right? disgrace to jem. and where, where are you? in the last 22 years, s p d general secretary, s p d labor, administer, s p, the finance minister as be the john slot. where you on another planet where you in

another world when it came to the fund, sholtes design policy, declaim confidence, and he as expected. but the other policies i've abstained. hope voted against the chancellor, who was soon on his way to the presidential pro is for a meeting with the countries head of state. now has to decide if and waiting to hold a new election. president, bank balance or stein maya has already signaled he thinks the 23rd of february next year is a realistic date. then germans will decide they want more of challenge the shelves or change direction. all right, well for more, joining me here in the studio is due to his chief political editor, the current time. that's great to have you. you've spent the day after, during problem with the bonus tag. so busy, busy, hectic day for you. we have the results that we've been expecting for weeks. so what happens now? well, the interesting thing is it sounds like it was

a defeat for what i thought, but this was actually exactly what he wanted. he wanted to be voted against. he wanted the declaration of no confidence into him, so he can go to the president as we just saw in those pictures and, and request for snap the snap elections. but the president will now also talk to different parliamentary groups because his role in this normally is lottie ceremonial role. but when it comes to issues of the constitution of keeping the country stable, of whether the offer selections, he's kind of the gatekeeper for that. and he will hold tools with the different problem mentoring groups to see whether that wouldn't be a possibility to have a different kind of coalition. pretty soon he will very likely come to the conclusion that they need to be his snap elections and then he will call those elections. he will dissolve parliament cool for those elections. and he already indicated that those would be on the 23rd of february. so this is kind of pulling protocol now, rather than actually having to persuade presidents to go for these elections. all

right, so we're talking about if all that happens as get where they think they will. all right, that's in a little over 2 months time. so we're basically in the campaign season. now, what are the issues that are set to dominate the campaign trail? we got a real taste of this campaign season today. it didn't feel like the end of anything . it felt like the, the beginning of the very he says campaign that we'll see now all of sold would like to have as top election topics. yes. the economy as well, but not so much because he's pointing towards the previous government which allegedly has responsibility for getting that he himself was the vice thompson. and that's in, in that coalition. and he wants to do it on raising the minimum weights. he wants to reassure diamonds in these very unstable times. he wants to raise it from 1241 years to 15, which would essentially simply be fulfilling

a trade in the bond. and also on social security, what's the result he resort pension is today. he tried to raise for people that groceries could become an it's not cheap, but at least the costs could stabilize because he wants to reduce the tax on groceries. on the other hand, you have to reach matt to was to go all the way on the economy at who really wants . he went on the attack, the today who charges off. so with having done a bad job and on the particular on the economy on try to stimulate growth again, because i mean that's, that's the fact that's the data it's showing, that's it. all of that is pointing downwards. but his approach is to want to reduce taxes and speak to that by create a new dynamism and determine economy. and that's what these are kind of the opposite ends and own. and so that's where we'll see the heat of campaign. but if migration comes into it, which we do expect, and this is something that's very much on diamonds mines and through what we're seeing at take pace and syria, that, that has

a new tracks. and here this debate with a serious a good back, don't we need them a lot of doctors, the society not need them. and that's something where the fall, right? a if the potty built into for them the could school some points as well. right. so there's plenty of issues there. economy seems to be coming up time and time again. and we've seen the poles shows as social democrats have been trading to say the least. the conservatives are way ahead compared to the social democrats. i think you've touched on some of the issues there, but what are the key areas that have led to this very poor performance in reason impulse for shows and the social democrats. well, this was always a 3 way marriage of necessity because the majority was the best that was seen as a bit of a political experiment. but it started off as a few to oriented coalesce, and then very soon they were hit with that attack by russell on ukraine. so that was that size. and then the, that's what would have souls committed, 100000000000 years to germany's military and basically declaring

a complete new period that were in the new era. and but they had it just over a year ago, their budget got blown after the war. so by constitutional court ruling, and that left them source of money, sources of some 18000000000 euros, and that money was never quite found. so we saw a lot of political wrangling, we saw a finance minister resisting and forgetting all about the debt break, something that's what i felt himself made. so actually came in to being in the 1st place. he's a big fan of that in principle. and it's put it bluntly, it's a 3 way code us and they only did that project that requires a lot of money in another coordination. folding on hard times financially is nothing that this code isn't actually most to survive and who we are. and we're talking about the selection campaign being on this, but it's really very much scared to be on personality. and i think we sold is coming through there. right now. what i sold has pretty bad polling and that's what

he needs to bounce back from to have any time. his social democrats out round about 20 percent. the conservative senior who sees you is around 30 percent. the fall right alternative for germany is also round about 20 percent. so this is where we'll see the made, the system will do. i have to add the fall, right? delta interested to how many will not show up as any part of any coalition here in germany. because the other parties to you don't want to work to them, but look, i mean, the social democrats, yet currently at 17, depends on which both the you look at, but that those are the possibilities and the greens, that's 11 really feeling the pain of, of having been in this total with the free democrats fighting for the political life. they need to make that 5 to said special old. and that's what what else helps hodges, as finance minister with x ascendant and who decided and this was linked to that. there was a plan to actually need this co listen, but he wanted to get fired. he didn't want to be seen to be leaving this cool.

listen. you mentioned the if the you've mentioned a couple of times there and you said that they, they will probably not end up in coalition government price boats for so yeah, for sure. there you go. so, but could they influence then will say policy in some way, shape or form us? absolutely, yeah. i mean, ever since the beginning they exist for more than a decade now in 2015, they got a real new lease of life. and then real new issue that they've been politically growing on a ever since, which is the, the arrival of some 1000000 syrians here. the whole migration issue is what made them big. and they already drive the political agenda when it comes to migration. and we see in those retail elections, we have this year in 3 eastern states where they will round about 30 percent, which is quite the spectacular result. and for any policy in these very fragmented times that they are forced to be reckoned with. and at the very least,

they drive the political agenda to announce decree. tell us a little bit more about friedrich merits. we soul you were told before, right. this person out of the difference will saying the part of the was certainly a spectacular difference watching it. right, i mean, he certainly didn't hold back in his attack of transfer cells. is this the kind of personality that we see coming through from him, or is this sort of a one of the event that we've seen today. so as you can tell from this exchange that you very nicely put together is the only thing that connects off souls and foolish maps. the opposition to is the neutral contempt for each other. they cannot find each other. and this is also a last part. the reason why they was able to get some kind of agreement on migration that could his mind is to get migration off the table before we head into an election campaign. so it is their inability to look at the lack of trust and lack of respect for each other, which really came through today. we kind of,

we've got 30 seconds, but i want to put one question to you. are we going to see a big shift in germany after the end of february? so yes, we will see a different code isn't at the very least, but it will, the key issue will be, will it be 2 or 3 policies? well, keep an eye on that and i feel will be talking many, many times over 3 weeks. i'm also always great to have you don't use chief political editor, metallica or make our country rich. they access, we tax them ad but toward reciprocal if they want to charge us, that's why we're going to charge them the same. that once a us president elect donald trump earlier today talking about his favorite word tyrus. as his integration creeps closer,

trump is still threatening to slap huge taxes on foreign imports and he doesn't just have china in his sites. he's also called out, is north american neighbors, mexico and canada. today, the tensions over trumps tire of plans triggered a political drama in the canadian capital auto, with the southern resignation of finance minister christy at freeland, freeland served as prime minister justin to go as deputy and had been due to present autumn economic numbers in parliament today. the 2 have clashed in recent weeks over fiscal policy issues, including time to respond to the threat of hire a tire by us president elect. donald trump r last week, freeland spoke out in favor of a tough canadian responsive trumpet, goes ahead with his tire fence canada depends on the united states. absolutely. it's also true that the united states depends on us. and the reality is that canada

is by far the largest market for the united states. we are a larger export market for the us than china, japan, the u. k. and france combined. that is a big deal. that gives us significant leverage in the event that the united states were to impose unjustified terrace on canada. of course, we would respond and the canadian response would necessarily be robust. while the planned response from chicago was apparently not robust enough for freeland, who submitted her resignation letter to the prime minister earlier today. and she wrote, you and i have found ourselves at odds about the best path forward for canada. our country today faces a great challenge. the incoming administration in the united states is pursuing a policy of aggressive economic nationalism, including

a threat of 25 percent tyrus. we need to take that threat extremely seriously. for more we're joined now from the canadian capital author went by journalist lucy, yvonne alden barn about lucy. great to have you on the show. thanks for making the time for us today on dw. so 1st and foremost, how big of a surprise was christy at freelance and 9 spent today and how big of a blow is her resignation for it? prime minister to those at government? i don't think it's over stating it to say it was a bombshell. no one saw it coming. first of all, christian breeland, the finance minister was, was scheduled to deliver a, an economic update later this afternoon. so when, when news of her resignation came, um, sure. sort of 1st thing this morning, phones around the capital were blowing up because although there had been told that there were growing tensions between the prime minister and his finance minister, they did not see this coming. so it is a considerable blow for justin. true though,

because she is, has been since he was elected in 2050, been his right hand. she's sort of the minister of everything if there was a tough file, keep a pressure, freeland on it, she'll get the job done. she's also the deputy prime minister. so having her resign on the day, she used to deliver a full economic statement. and then subsequently releasing that letter in canada, mom on why she resigned was immense low for the prime minister. or will tell us actually more about the reasons that that led to this resignation or yeah, so there's, there's a couple of things that are, that are going on here. so the, the finance minister at seems to, in, in recent months been disagreeing quite significantly with the prime minister above the the economic direction of the country. recently, justin trudel has said that he's going to give canadians a bit of a tax holiday at a g. s. t, the goods and services that for 2 months,

so the canadians won't have to pay tax. and 2nd of all, he's going to be paying um, sending canadians, anyone who earns under a $150000.00, a $250.00 check. now today, christopher freeland called these political gimmicks, and so she was quite, quite damaged in her condemnation of that. so what she is doing is prime minister, as, as finance minister, is trying to get the country's finances back in order after the cobra pandemic interest ahead of an election that is scheduled next year. and so with the prime minister of spending spending the way he is with these 2 latest moves, the tensions rolling and so on friday we are now learning, said the appointments to hold her in and said that he would be shuffling her out of the wine as a court folio, all right, there are also and this is important context. this is important context because more carnita is um and if it's an important ally of departments, he is a former bank governor of the bank of canada and the bank of england,

the prime minister has been 14 him for many, many months now. so the fact that he was shuffling his finance minister out putting your somewhere in cabinet in the, in the hopes that maybe more corny would assume this finance portfolio. right was just the, the straw that broke the camel's back. and she was like today. and of course, this is all coming in the context of your neighbor here. so their neighbor at donald trump, the seems to be president of the united states threatening terrace, which could result in serious economic issues for canada. so how has the canadian government been preparing for this at possible, at the introduction of tires as well? and they're not just small chair, suite of trunk is, is proposing 25 percent care of on all canadian exports choose united states. this would cripple the canadian economy so, so very soon after the announcement, bye bye. soon to be president. trump, of the prime minister,

lead down tomorrow logo to meet with him in florida. it was said that the meeting with well pressure, freeland, i, i, my dad went on that trip with, with 2 adults. and, but since been trying to sort of been trolling, the problem is tre, calling him the governor, the 51st governor, kansas should just join the united states as a 50 per state. and so, um but, but there are some who are really calling for, for strong measures to get to it to have a united front. were all the premieres in, in canada, or united due to the challenge, donald trump and is your representative. right, so i'm, we're and do that. the canadian people stand on the return of donald trump because they're saying they're that the premier is of all the provinces of kind of that isn't this proposal for the multi joined but, you know, is there unity on, on how they stand on donald trump? yeah. no, it's an excellent question because canadians are, are largely seen to be progress of people rights are somewhere in the center of the

political spectrum. but i don't know that there is widespread support for donald trump. it is, but on the horizon here in general, gosh, there is a right wing candidate. currently the opposition leader pierre all the up. and she is, i have to set up a time expecting to become the next prime minister when the election is called. the support for him has been growing. the dissatisfaction with the to go has been, has been growing. and so it is uncharacteristic for canadians to be so they like a separate board of, of, of someone who was right of center on the political spectrum. but that seems to be where we are right now. so, well, there is no time i wouldn't say widespread support for donald trump. people are worried about him and his cabin and choices. um there is going support for this type of business. right? being leader who's expected to win the next election or what could that mean then for canada, on site, it's relations with donald trump as well to get that remains to be seen because

pierre paulia has been, um, he has been, he has been a vocal proponent of of, of some of the policies that donald trump is, is proposing he is also up for more. um he has found more government hands off in his approach, which is also not a typically canadian approach to the government. and so, so we, we were, oh, it remains to be seen how he will, how people govern. but he believes in small government, in, in dramatically reducing the deficit, which would mean massive layoffs in our, in our, in our civil service. and also a more of a, a canada 1st approach if you will. so you'll go head to head with donald trump in in that way, but they may be have of more of a natural alliance. then perhaps justin trudel and donald trump. well, actually, just to, to, to finish lucy, support for justin for it though,

has been plummeting. and could christy, a freeland, be a potential arrival for it? crudo going forward? or? yeah, well, so she, she is, she has resigned from cabinet, but she is not resigned. her seat and she said that she is going to run again, which may set up her eventual launch into a run for the, for the liberal leader. so you might say, i'm not sure rival is the right word because it's widely expected that after the next election, justin trim gold, we'll step down as liberal leader and certainly is expected to lose. and so he would step as prime minister as well the canadian public would ensure that. and so it is expected that she may run to replace him. but again, mark carney, who uh who, who is, has, has all kinds of credibility when it comes to economic management is also expected to be a strong contender to replace just intruders. so it's, it's hard to say at this point, but the fact that she will now be on the back bench and not on the front bench and

cabinet will be interesting to watch how she, how she plays this going forward. there was a super interesting talking to and actually canadian politics is fascinating. journalist lou saint via an old and barn evolve. joining us from the canadian capital auto. great. have you on the show, state you germany and france like to talk up their special relationship and it's true. the 2 countries do have the political and cultural connections. but when it came to getting between berlin and powers by train, that's when the friendship became a little complicated, with no direct, high speed link between the capitals today that will changed at 9 55 am a german i. c. e train left guard the last in paris, bound for berlin, with no changes the hasn't columbia trip tonight takes about 8 hours. perfect. if you want a cross on for breakfast and breakfast for dinner time wise,

it's not actually much faster than the old connection with the operators are hoping . the simpler direct service will be a commercial success in both directions and cokes. a few more people off the plane and on to raise the most checked out. alright, that's the show for today. follow our team on social media. i don't mean use and if it's the latest headlines you're looking for, there's always our website, www dot com for now from the entire team on the day. thanks for spending part of your day with us. do take the

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