a vote called by center left to transfer off schultz and the vote. can you he would lose. charles now begins to fight for his political life against the conservative police mounts is 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 the phone he lives here in britain. this is the day the . today we are finally voting on the question of confidence, not to the let's be honest with each other in this election campaign. the you are leading the country and one of the biggest economic crises in postwar history. kindly the no folks are 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. what does that on?

i will continue to give my goal for germany every day on this 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 up the 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 for democrats, quit the social democratic level government. last month, a 2 parties had long sparred over economic policy, prompting shouts to f. r f. d, p leader and finance minister because 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. or as the members of jim and his parliament gathered on monday, no lack of confidence was visible on the face of the shelves. john snub put the confidence question to the boldest tongue lead the 6th time this has happened. but he's a was to be just gonna vote, paving the way for an early election,

which he's already campaigning to wait. isn't that done? does he didn't talk and we're a country that goes together every day, a country that value is 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 in, make com, home and thoughts on conservative opposition leader friedrich meds who likes to become the next john slot. when it's on the attack, he said, shouts holmes, gemini, is nbc. how you behave with the european level? is embarrassing. you're a disgrace to jem and where, where are you? in the last 22 years, s p. d general secretary, s p d. labor administer, s be the finance minister, that's pretty jobs like. well, you on another planet where you in another world

when it came to the vent, shows design policy, the play confidence in him 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 frank bounce or stein maya has already signal 2 things. the 23rd of february, next year is a realistic date. then germans will decide they want more of chancellor shoulds or change direction. all right, well for more, joining me here in the studio is due to his chief political editor, christmas time. it's great to have you. you've spent the day after durham problem with the bonus tag is so busy, busy, hectic day for you. we have the result 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 parliament tree 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 that offer selections, he's kind of the gatekeeper for that. and he will hold tools with the different parliamentary 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 following protocol now, rather than actually having to persuade presidents to go for these elections, all right, so we're talking about, it's all that happens as you would think. yeah,

well, all right, that's in a little over 2 months time. so we're basically in the campaign season now and 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 a top election topics. yes. the economy as well, but not so much because he's pointing towards the previous government, which allegedly has responsibility. forgetting 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 somebody before filling a trade in the bond. and also on social security. what's the result?

he reassured, pension is today. he tried to reassure people that groceries could become an if 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 at least match what's to go all the way on the economy. at who really warranty 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 the data is showing. that's it. all of that is pointing downwards, but his approach is to want to reduce taxes and to that by create a new dynamism and determine economy. and that's what these are kind of the opposite ends and own. and that's where we'll see the heats of campaign. but if migration comes in to it, which we do expect, and this is something that's very much on diamonds mines and through what we're seeing, a take pace in syria that that has a new tracks. and here there's a debate with a serious a good back that we need them. a lot of doctors,

the society not need them. and that's something where the fall, right? a if the potty deal tend to fit 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 polls. sholtes 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 on the social democrats. well, this was always a 3 way marriage of necessity because the majority wasn't this. it was seen as a bit of a political experiment, but it started off as a fuse to orient as coalition. then very soon they were hit with that attack by russell on ukraine. so that was that size, and then the, that's what i've sold commissions. 100000000000 years to determine these military and basically declaring a complete

a new period that were in the new era and but they had it just over a year ago, their budget go blow now. so the was a by constitutional court ruling, and that left them source of money, source of, 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 that break something that 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 their projects of that requires a lot of money. and 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 or is coming through that right now. what else felt has pretty bad polling and that's what he needs to bounce back from to have any talk his those the 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 major cisco though. i have to add the fall right else into for dominique will not show up as any part of any coalition here in germany because the other parties, so you don't want to work to them. but look, i mean, the social democrats, yet currently it's 17 depends on which falsity you look at. but that those are the possibilities and the greens, that's 11 really are feeling. the pain of, of having been in this code isn't with the freed democrats fighting for the political life they need to make that fight to said special old. and that's what what else helps hodges, as finance minister with x a 7 know who decided and this was linked to that. there was a plan to actually need this coalition, but he wanted to get fired. he didn't want to be seen to be leaving the school. listen, you mentioned the after you've mentioned a couple of times there and you said that they, they will probably not end up in

a 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, you know, 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 syrian, see the whole migration issue is what made them big. and they over the dry, if 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 allow us to create. tell us a little bit more about friedrich merits. we saw 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 and is the only thing that connects off souls and foolish maps, the opposition to is them neutral contempt for each other. they cannot find itself . and this is also the 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 because 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? yes, we will see a different color set 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 botanical cares for make our country rich. they tax us, we tax them ad retreat, but toward reciprocal if they want to charge us, that's why we're going to charge them the same. that was 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 coal, that is north american neighbors, mexico and canada. today, the tensions over drums tire of plants 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 those 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 my us president elect. donald trump, our 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 of the best past 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 ottawa 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 some and today i'm how big of a below is her resignation for prime minister to those at government? i don't think it's overstating it to say it was a bombshell. no one saw it coming. first of all, christian freeland, the finance minister was, was scheduled to deliver a, an economic update later this afternoon. so when, when news of her resignation came sort of 1st thing this morning, phones around the capital were blowing up because although there had been told that there are growing tensions between the prime minister and his finance minister, they did not see this coming. so could you give us a considerable blow for justin? truthful because she is, has been since he was elected in 2015,

been his right hand. she's sort of a 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's 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 tax 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 governments, 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 prime minister, hold her in and said that he would be shuffling her out of the wine as a cord fully. all right, there are also and this is important context. this is important context because more carnita is um and is it an important allies of departments or is he is a former bank governor of the bank of canada and was bank of england. the prime minister had 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, 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. you just joined the united states as a 50 per state. and so um, but what, there are some who are really calling sports for strong measures to get fit to have a united front were old premier's in, in canada, or united king. due to the challenge, donald trump, and is there a present? is that right? so i'm, we're do, but the canadian people stand on the return of donald trump, cuz you're saying they're that the premieres of all the problems of kind of that is that this proposal for the multi join. 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 or 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, 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 not 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 for this frightening 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 trio 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? 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 in 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 actually. canadian politics is fascinating. journalist lou saint via an old and barn evolve. joining us from the canadian capital auto. great to have you on the show, steak if germany and france liked it took 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 1000 kilometer trip now takes about 8 hours. perfect. if you want a cross on for breakfast and pro forced for dinner time wise, it's not actually much faster than the old connection. but the operators are hoping

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