the unique insights into a seemingly hopeless struggle, the sharp edge of peace thoughts much set on dw, the business day that we knew his line from berlin attorneys, motors have spoken, but they want change. conservative leader flourish match the said to become the countries next chancellor, after a record number of sermons, cast their ballots in the highest turn out century unification. meanwhile, the social democrats on current chancellor all shots take a hammering there. now the conservatives most likely junior partner and coalition sold says he will not be involved in negotiation. and the far right alternative for germany, the baby comes, drew ne, number 2 already almost doubling. it's both since the last selection in 2021.

the come fairly welcome to the show. germans have voted for change with the countries. conservatives cleaning victory and sundays national election with the roads now tally and has become clear that the only way to majority for fluid mass is christian. democrats will be a coalition with the social democrats the far right and they have come in 2nd with a strong showing, but mass refuses to work with them as do all other german parties. let's break down the numbers for you. mass is conservative, came out on top, we already heard that with 28.5 percent. the far right alternative for jeremy almost doubled their share of the vote to 20.8 percent. making them the 2nd largest party. germany's uncommon social democrats suffered a crushing defeat. dropping over 9 percentage points to 16.4 percent. the

greens fell 3 percentage points to 11.6 percent left party fared better than expected. with 8.7 percent of the road, b. s. w with splintered from the left party last year took only 4.97 percent, just short of the 5 percent threshold needed to enter parliament. the business from the f t p also fell below the 5 percent threshold of crash out of parliament. other smaller parties together took over 4 percent of the votes. so we'll look now and how election 9 unfolded, starting with the conservatives for the 1st place. via the cd, the cd you and c, s. u, the uni of law of one. there's 2025 election which ones is gone and previous matches. the man in the driving seat is clear winner of this election. he said to become jim and john sla though he still faces the tricky task of building

a coalition, a center right, cd. you see if you block, received the most, both sparkly emoji, and there were down to 50 percent. it's not the support match. wanted to laugh, shouts will stay on this kid. it's a good chance that but he's days is jim and his lead to our number is s b d policy. it seems like it's west results and then they're still election since the 19th century on, on for the big and also on the grounds. come raids, face is a base every election results of the social democratic party talking to you for different types and stuff on it. i need to log in the alternative for jim and he thought he nearly doubled it, support the strongest, showing for a fall, right pause. he sits, the 2nd world will in the post election discussion on public t v co lead, at least vital had her royce, on the lead visit power was a honda solves cuz her hand decides stretched to take part in the government and on today we will support the cd you c s u, when there are motions that we approvals, if we go in the right direction and the well of the german people is clear,

he's the only one change when it say wants to coalition between the f b and the conservative assessment. flawless watts and toys, i think united predicted the conservative block would not be able to form a stable government. and the, if they would in time become germany's largest politics. the man said his party had little in common with the f d parking beastie, the deck on jones. you can reach out to us as much as you like. we will not see mister guy did call us inquiry on this move from the green source, small dropping support furnished as old a government, which is what i think because among small apologies the less beneficial tr massage and support from younger voters. it was a campaign dominated by fits fios about migration and russia, a filtering economy. and the fear that donald trump is changing jim and his relationship with the united states. previous man says he has a plan for all of those issues. but 1st, he needs to find out who will join him in government. let's take

a closer look at where that leads to or when a with me that way and political correspondent, julia. so deli, julie, i'm so good to see your short night for you. i'm sure um what are merits as options now, it doesn't have many i would say because um his preferred party with which you would like to form a coalition. the ftp are not in the bonus tag, and even if they hadn't gotten in likely not with enough votes to help them. so that option is gone. and the most likely. now if he wants to stick to a 2 party coalition, which is also the preferred option, as we've seen just with the latest government that 3 party coalitions can become quite complicated, is now a coalition with the social democrats. this is a coalition that we've seen many times, especially under former chancellor, on going american. it would be a slim majority, but it wouldn't be a majority. and that would allow the 2 parties to maybe find some more agreement then having to bring in someone else an option would be bringing in the green party if they would want to have a stronger majority of parliament would that would likely complicates things in

terms of finding compromise, and i want to talk about the greens and the 2nd, but 1st let's look at the fringe parties because they were the big winters of the night. not only they, if they also the left, both may choose games. what does that tell us about the change in political landscape here in germany that we almost especially in the, when we talk about the a f d, have to sort of move away from the term french parties because of the, you know, the 2nd biggest party. now it represented in the parliament that's quite, quite a big change for, for their standing. and we see that i think it represents the satisfaction among germany's voters with the parties that have been in government. so far. we've seen that the latest governing coalition has very low supports rates among the population. and we've also seen that a lot of a non voters have decided to vote for the se. they have the biggest share of non voters supporting them. and to me, that shows really the satisfaction and almost wanting to sort of show this the

satisfaction is at the ballot box. and when we look at, for example, of the left party, it also is a sign of this, the satisfaction with the parties of the sensors and to the left that don't seem to offer a great alternative to what many c as a dangerous rise of the right in germany enhanced maybe the decision and we've seen that especially with young voters to go to the left party hoping that they also can provide an alternative me the greens. you mentioned that their possible members of a 3 way coalition, something that especially now having seen what happened it to the so called traffic light coalition of many people would like to not see a re. 9 of and they were the ones of that that failed coalition that was led to by the social democrats. they were the ones who took the the least last is last and we support how would you explain that? i think the greens have a strong voter base that will vote for the greens no matter what. this is voter

base that we've seen going between 1115 percent and that sort of protects the greens from, you know, having a terrible drop in, in, in, in their support. and this despite the greens having been in this difficult collision, having had to deal with some issues in their government to that didn't necessarily help them also bring forward what they would like to do with their, their objectives and politics. so this is a voter base that seems to want to stick with them regardless. now obviously the big disappointment from the greens was not being able to reach out to the other voters who might have had bouts with other parties. but in the end didn't decide to go with for them. yeah, british merits last night was very clear. he said the world, the state it's in cannot wait for germany to sort itself out. does that mean we can expect pragmatism and a and a swift coalition agreement going forward? that's what everyone is hoping for. we've heard from so that we can that, that he would like to get

a coalition done by easter. so around mid april. it has happened before we have seen previous coalitions form in just 30 days. so if that is a parties that end up going into these collision talks, we do decide to be pragmatic and go with a, a coalition agreement that includes the points that they know that they can share, that they can get done together. then yes, we might see a, a quick call listen button in german politics and coalition building. anything can happen really. so in the end it might actually end up taking longer. we'll just have to, you know, keep our eyes open and see what happens. and we will, that was julia, so deli, thank you so much. you will be with us all morning and there's plenty more to talk about. thanks so much. well, there has of course, been international reaction to the road among many world meters, congratulating television as you, as president donald trump celebrate of the election result in a social media post saying the conservative victory was a green date for germany. and the u. s. a like terms of confidence, a billionaire,

a long lost endorse the far. 2 right alternative for jeremy party and the most last month must have a virtual address to to add an ac rally saying a quote only the a f d can save germany something you also posted on his social media network. x are free . there's mass has been critical of mosque support for the f d saying it resembles election interference by russia. was it the end of it? so the interventions from washington were, you know, less dramatic and impertinent. the interventions we have seen from mosque also, and the goals most often see, and we are under massive pressure from 2 sides of the adult for judgments just a few days ago said he was shocked by trump's comments about a grain saying it was russian narrative. he's also spoken about receiving more independence from the us. we asked our corresponding in vc benjamin alvarez is he thought we were going to see a transformed relationship between berlin and long term ally, washington. it will be

a different relationship. i did remains to be seen how exactly this different relationship it will look like. there are some recent statements from, from previous math that are quite remarkable. 5 or during a debate after the 1st exit, polls came out. he sharply criticized the trump administration. he said that his priority is to achieve independence from the us. when we look at defense, he said step by step. and you also mentioned that one of his main priorities will be to strength, strength from europe as quickly as possible. and he said that last week statements from president trump, it made clear that at least his administration, it pretty much no longer kaz about the state of europe. so pretty is strong. what's that from? if we chris match, the said it's not certain what the future will hold like for nato, even if there's a in a european alternative that might be needed ahead of the next a nato summit. and the last thing that he mentioned was calling out what he said was intervention by

a alon musk. one of the most important advises of president trump match even equated intervention from washington and from moscow. so that's quite a remarkable stem from us efforts to benefit the far right alternative. if for germany party that you mentioned to you are giving a lot of our time it to the spider on accident. also repeatedly claiming that the only party that can safe germany's be 50. that's benjamin alvarez. exactly 3 years ago today, russia launched its full scale invasion on ukraine. the anniversary coincides with k is facing the prospect of drastically reduced support from the west under donald trump. just last week from called ukraine's president, a dictator without elections and responsible learners landscapes now said he would be willing to resign and exchange that is for peace under the security umbrella of nato. steve cranium, president took to the stage to answer journalist questions on the eve of the 3rd

anniversary of russia's invasions and met fierce criticism from the trumpet administration below the mirror, zalinski state firm and his push to get security guarantees from washington and eventually joining nato when asked if he would resign an exchange for peace, 3 and so on. so he said he's prepared to step down if needed someone to locate and you have to achieve peace. you really need me to give up my post. i'm ready, though i can trade in for new tools and if there are such conditions, if you think you're more but at this moment, i don't want to talk about it for a long time. yeah, because i am focused on ukraine security today. so not in 20 years, lots of i am not going to be in power for decades. of a lot of the they said that each of the lead us president donald trump has demanded that ukraine gives us $500000000000.00. invaluable raw materials as a pay back for american aid to zalinski has rejected the demand does by the negotiator, by then,

and negotiated with the congress of the united states of america. simple up as i am grateful to the congress. if you think there was bipartisan support for the grant, a grant is not a debt, even then we do not have a debt to repay ukrainian, president added, he would not agree to deal with that would have to be paid off by 10 generations of future ukrainians so and so these comments are, paulo de heated exchange with donald trump locus. last we called him a quote with the dictator without elections of the cranium. leader said he was not offended by trumps remarks. that's something you have another minute i would not describe the words president trump addressed to me as a compliment to put it mildly yes, but why be offended? one might be offended by the word dictator. if he was a dictator, holland, so we will not, but i take it like this and what can you do to time puts you it says what am i yeah, we will live with the us. some homes on the zalinski, also called on trump, to meet with him before any summit with russian president vladimir putin in the

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