the, the 5 years officer comes and we remember when the, well, it still stops much 8th on dw, the, this is the, the news life from berlin. a vote for change in germany's national elections. conservatively definitely commits these set to become the countries next jobs, plus, after the record number of germans cost the balance in the highest turnouts since were you. and if occasion meanwhile, the source of democrats and columns, johnson, the whole of souls, take a hammering. but they have the conservatives most likely junior pop, not enough possible coalition. and the thought items on a different germany, the a, if the celebrates is finished in 2nd place, it has doubled its share of the vote since the last election and in other news,

european leaders are gathering in keep their in ukraine to mock down inverse via restaurants portfolios can envision and show sonya data to meet fairs of dwindling commitment on the us, the, i've been expanded, you're welcome. germany's voters have opted for the change of government with official results from sunday is national election now in conservative, free basements, these boys to become the countries next. john's law, here's the cd. you'll see as your block is set to lead a future government with the fed place source of democrats who lead the former administration, the father at a if the took 2nd place. but mets refuses to work with them. let's break the numbers down for you now. now matches conservative

a came out on top with the 28.5 percent of the vote. the far right of tentative for germany doubled the share of the vote to 20.8 percent and making them the 2nd largest, spotty, germany's incumbent. social democrats suffered at the polls dropping over 9 percentage points to 16.4 percent. the greens fell 3 percentage points to 11.6 percent and the left bought the fed better than expected with 8.7 percent of the vote. the b s. w which splintered from the left body last year only took 4.97 percent just short of the 5 percent threshold needed to enter parliament. and the business friendly m d b also fell below the 5 percent special, sending it crashing out of bottom and the smaller policies took together, took over 4 percent of the vote. and here's how election night unfolded. starting with the conservatives who took fast place a v o the cd to cd,

you and c. s you the union block 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 receive the most both sparkly emoji, and that we're down to 50 percent. it's not the support match. wanted hold off shouts, we'll stay owners can take a chance that but these days as jim and his lead to our number is s b, d policy, etc. thoughts west results. and then they're still election since the 19th century on, on for the the can also in the grounds. come raids, face is a face or election results of the social democratic party talking to you for different types of stuff. i know 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 war in the post election discussion on

public t v co lead lease vital had her eyes on the lead visit power was a honda solve the fire hand desired stretched to take part in the government and until we will support the c d, u c. s u, when there are motions that we approvals, if they go in the right direction and the will of the german people is clear and useful. they want change when they wants to coalition between the f b and the conservative system, low spots. and i think united predicted the conservative block would not be able to form a stable government. and they, if they would in time become germany's largest politics. the man said he thought he had little in common with the i f d block and this the, the deck on jones. you can reach out to us as much as you like. we will not see you misguided called us inquiry on this move from the green source. small dropping support, punished as old a government, which is what i think because among small apologies the less beneficial tr massage and support from young voters. it was a campaign, dillman 19 bye, 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 treat. the smith says he has a plan for all of those issues. but 1st he needs to find out who will join him in government and said, you need to take math, spoke to the media. i felt fine back. he said the election has given his body akira mandate him together with he has to be d. we have a 328 out of 630 seats. so we are able to form a coalition government been consisting let's see. do you see as you and d s d d, that is what we want and this is what i found. they support for those who are doing the it says this committees meaning way go into how it talks. they have already boost. they've been prepared. we already had some preliminary talks and we're going to have

a talk with the project share off the cd. i'm going to talk to the john so that as well so that we can plan a transition phase, a transition phase, which is going to take a couple of weeks. and to the kid i kind of now was at that press conference at the cdo headquarters in abilene mckayla. so a dump bump with the s b d. what on map this product is going to be when he begins talking with the speeding . that's what he says as far as use the economy, but he did get us right now to look you promise. during the election campaign that is migration and not allowing migrant to come with the name of asylum from other countries as stopping them at the board. you said that would be the entry ticket for a coalition, and he says he thinks he can achieve that with this, those democrats who are responsible for the current migration policy. so that will be an, it's an interesting one. but this could take the weeks a month,

one major task of the next government will have cosby. germany's relationship with the us and the trump administration. last night, matt spoke of so called independence from the us. what was his date of the press conference is absolutely and that he said he couldn't believe that he was saying something like that in the t v program that those relations could break. you also accused the united states of having in to feed in the election. see as much as russia, particularly over that speech by us, vice president, date events and eat on mosque was a straight out recommendation to vote for the fall, right? if the policy and i got to ask him about what his stance is towards the us as he just became elected a just one these elections, let's just take a listen to that. of the votes of this guns off on sending messages very clear and straightforward. we are very much interested as your opinions to have

a good relationship with us and to maintain this relationship. we see ourselves as partners. we see the u. s. a. to investigate why they're not unimportant size. the height of nato to visit d. u is also an important part of nato's. we are in a political lines. it's not just the military alliance as a political alliance as well. i see it all started for fitness and we have so far have the same understanding of an open society. we should be a market economy, democracy, tylen liberal values, and i hope we will continue to share these values and develop a relationship on that basis. mikaela, whatever that is, out of matches, overtures, germany would have to spend more on defense. know can mets as coalition that you for well, and that will be very difficult because the smaller policies uh to the right to the

left fringe policies. they can block any kind of constitutional change in parliament, and that would be required to have an extra pots of money that would be alongside that debt break in the german constitution. that too would not be easily be able to be reformed. so he would need to see a much broader kotis doesn't want to do that. and, and he is interestingly very vague on what acts in both as soon as the democrats were still in power. and the cause of the cdc is you could still take before that 1st parliament and that to new to elect department to get together. they may want to use the old with georgie in the parliament that is still sitting so that he was very evasive on that very question. so i'm very curious to the exact details once those 2 sides have spoken really. but the, for the moment data moves to put a thing that we can look at that thanks so much i that was the c d u. meanwhile, the far right alternative for germany, the f,

the doubled it's more true in sundays election and became the 2nd largest policy with frontier point 8 percent according to preliminary results. this marks it shift from the fringes to a major political force. but despite his gains, old major parties have ruined out. working with the f d. it is now set to be the largest opposition party. and this graphic gives us a sense of whether a of the strongest, and that's plainly in germany's eastern regions, the dock of the blue, the grid, the percentage of voters who opted for the far right. and those doc, 2 areas correspond pretty much exactly with the state boundaries of the former communist east germany and other press conference today the ear of the party konita phrase departing, says product result and said voters wanted to see the f t as part of a new government v as in by it, we are prepared to take on responsibility in the gym and vice has have voted for

political change for this issue. we have a strong majority for the f d on the cdn. mia high vote is one, a centrist right wing government develop institution unlimited. i think you will. now it's down to the union, the conservative, whether they want to deliver that. yep. so i think right now it looks like that. what happened, freighters met, seems to be sticking to his attitude of looking, working together with the a f d, which we do not think as democrats, it can not simply exclude millions of voted. and so it's down to the union block to see how they deal with this on their own. but what we can expect is that if they do form a coalition with us today, they will not be able to implement all of the f d positions that they co pay to learn such as mass. can you please if the pointed to one gives them vent and does nothing more, wasn't the press briefing of the alternative to afford germany party the,

the jumping on the line and that's, it was the sd won't be a part of the mix government, but we wouldn't be able to influence governing decisions well, that's what we're hoping for at least the rash because they're counting on the government of the center right on a center left government really not being able to, to push through the measures that the center right. lead us, we take matchers, the monitors likely to be the next time so that he won't be able to get his we, when it comes time to the crack done on your regular migration that he has promised voters. and that is what the fee is waiting for. and they see that if he doesn't do that, they will be waiting in the wings rated to apply pressure not necessary to go for those measures as to come to the been distracted to make sure they get through that would place the cd you in a really tight bind, but the main thing as best as a force note to be reckoned with. the, the 2nd biggest pop hockey and paul and, and they will be there influencing that, that to be and, and under stock. i'm influencing that to be in the country and basically sending

the message to f, assuming you doesn't solve this problem of a regular migration. we will be waiting in the wings and we will be ready to overtake you. have a if the participant has been reacting. i mean, they did, after all, to double their share thoughts compared to 4 years back. so yeah, i mean, this is, was some people would say is as a really a historic night for them. one said to me, it was a puzzle because this was a moment with the, the went from being on also run to one of the big major political parties in germany. so you can imagine they are and full of energy full of confidence and we saw some of that defiance actually in the press conference today, at least vital was and teaching a meant, the opposition to mainstream media. she almost funded quite from pin am and she she, she's confident because she's golf. she's had the, the in recent weeks she's had um, the support of the loan mosque. she's had this a for of judy von, she met with the us, vice president judy bunch in munich. and so there's a sense we do that. this is

a pos to this on the up and came across today. and she also called the here for the policy of the future, is it that remains to be seen. the mean? the big question will be ton, the next german government get a graph on the issues that the voters care about. those 2 big issues that the voltage subset the care about or the economy about migration. and so there's a lots of pressure on that government coalition for now the, the has, it has established itself as the dominant force and the former east germany. that is the $145.00 of $48.00 seats. they have they have increased level in west germany, and they think they were a very, very good position to establish themselves as a major political party and the next elections and 2029. we lived there for the moment. thanks so much for joining us for the political correspondence. matthew mall. it's and breathing new life into the drum and economy wouldn't be

a focal point of upcoming goal. listen, thoughts as well to said it was one of the top issues, high costs and going and stopping to have dragged on business since the beginning of the war in ukraine in 2022. the largest economy has shrunk over the past 2 years, and job losses are mounting. business groups are pushing for less productive, seeking more competitive energy and labor costs. a cassandra center from the depth of business jones be now in the studio for more because under welcome, the german economy has been planning for the last we as the recession has been going into can the next couple one fix. this is a bit ironic that the next government will likely be to party is one of which was in power for 16 years and contributed a lot to these problems. that would be the c d u that done by uncle america and a cd which spent the last 3 and a half years and failing to fix some of these problems. but to be fair to both of these parties, the issues are complicated here and they've been longstanding. germany was in

recession in 20232024. and the reasons for this are slightly at odds with what's been a concern of voters and a promise from at least the cd you, for example, infrastructure here is dilapidated, but it requires investment and it requires investment. but the cd you is a really big fan of the debt break, which puts a hard limit on how much spending the government can do. you also have uh, calls for more skilled workers, more skilled migration, but merits has already signaled that he wants to track down on migration though efforts so far has been targeted asylum seeker. so even while that's happening, you have bureaucracy that's really impenetrable. on like so many levels, and you also have high taxes in energy prices taking a debt out of companies, bottom lines. so it's a perfect storm problems. at the same time, germany is an economy that relies heavily on exports, good exports, pop up the economy. there have been a lot of headwinds, facing german exports, germany for a long time was a leading export or, uh, and the formula for that was,

i'm going to really simplify it, but it was centrally was you buy cheap parts abroad. you add some of this german, uh, engineering spice, and you use cheap energy to make all that happen and sell it as a valuable good. but unfortunately, the top to, to cheap energy has been turned off, was formerly coming from russia. and there's just less of an appetite for this german spice, right? there is a growing domestic markets and those consumers are turning to domestic alternatives instead. manufacturing and electronic technologies has been hit particularly hard. so as the economy springs, year after year, manufacturing is just so critical, it makes up 20 percent of germany's gdp. so potentially what a coalition could do is also grow domestic demand. just speaking of manufacturing spies, the auto industry has been really struggling quite a bit up. what does the, what's the shape of that industry at the moment, right? germany is well known for its auto manufacture as part of the german brand, almost. right. and in recent decades,

it's been relying the law exports to the us and china, the number one and number 2 economies in the world. but now china and chinese buyers, they're buying more cars and from domestic sources, especially electric vehicles. there's less of an appetite for a name brand from germany, so to speak. and then united states, they're set to impose tariff quite high tariffs. i should add and those are coming from, of course the us president who wrote the art of the deal. so maybe that's negotiating tactic, but this sector is an example of maybe not putting all your eggs in one basket for 2 baskets, because now the world's largest economy, the 2nd largest economy, are shown in german products at this moment. speaking of the goals here from the groceries and just at the beginning here in germany for a new government, a new coalition government, what signal is the business community in germany sending the signal so far that they want these negotiation talks wrapped up quickly. i'm sure they're not the only ones, but they definitely want this wrapped up quickly. these problems are long standing and so they're looking for solutions. merits has vowed kind of classic right wing or, or right leaning solutions, cutting business taxes, cutting red tape,

that kind of thing. and so far in frankfurt, the docs is up this morning including stocks from german named brand companies like siemens, mercedes, benz and sap. it seems like they think it's soon going to be easier to do business in germany and they're very pro that, but i do want to mention that the tax has been hitting highs even as germany's been in recession. so whether or not that will ever took her down to consumers have not been feeling so optimistic. we'll have to wait and see it, leave it there for the moment because i'm just one from the depth of business. thanks so much. i meanwhile, the top candidate of germany's green party would no longer be seeking a key role in the body following it's disappointing election result robot hawbaker was vice chancellor, an economic minister in the previous coalition. government says that result was not what he or the greens had been hoping for. the green party to see 11.6 percent of the vote. a drop of 3 point one percent. how big also fails to win his constituency, losing to a c d. u candidate, it is highly unlikely the greens will have

a role in germany's new company and robots. how big spoke to the media, our short find a go. this doesn't to what is comments, what do you do? so with no further ado, let me say that this result is not supported on this is kind of just a give you, this is where you live up to what i was hoping for. i was hoping for more. we were all hoping for a better result for the result of that for us and for the party. my advice or a number of decisions the party is going to restructure in the new role mitchell team. and then on wednesday, we're going to be electing our executive committee and make decisions in our various party buddies. and this was very much my policy, you know, the green party and i assigned to the greens and the idea was to have a strong party in. but i have to say that i will no longer aspire

to a central role reduced size, right. and the party alls, so that wasn't the only big statement behind in the past 24 hours. one of the most astonishing statements was made by incoming germans on specific methods on election night. and that was about his relationship with the trumpet, ministration in washington. he said that he would do everything he could to make you are independent of the us. that of course, after president trump had sent shock waves across europe by pushing ahead but based on ukraine with russia excluding both keys. and you all have been lead is sure is what matt said in the election program on german television, a good opportunity to play with for me, the absolute priority will be to strengthen europe as quickly as possible. so that step by step we can achieve independence from the us up. i never saw it. i would have to say something like this on a television program. they bought them off to donors from statements last week. it

is clear that the americans, at least and even for this part of the americans, that this administration all parts are largely different to the fate of a funeral fund tv. i'm very curious to see how we're heading towards the nato summit at the end of june. whether we will still be talking about in a to and it's current form, or whether we will have to establish an independent european defense capability much more quickly. that is my absolute priority into it. and if you're just joining us, here's a quick recap of what's been happening. germany's voters have opted for a change of government with the official results from sunday's national election. now in conservative free defense is boys to become the countries. next, john's law a see the use here to block is set to lead a future tough month with the play store from the democrats, who led to the former administration. the followed i'd a of the took 2nd plays, but math refuses to work with them that just big down the numbers for you quite quickly. mats is conservatives came out on top with 28.5 percent of the volts

default. i'd alternative for germany double the share of the vote of 20.8 percent, making them the 2nd largest, spotty, germany's incumbent social democrats suffered at the polls dropping over 9 percentage points to 16.4 percent. the greens fell 3 percentage points to 11.6 percent. the left bought the fed better than expected with 8.7 percent of the vote . the b s w which splintered from the left part the last year only took 4.97 percent. that is just short of the 5 percent threshold needed to enter parliament. and the business funding ftp also fell below the 5 percent special, sending it crashing out a fall event. other smaller policies together took over 4 percent of the vote. so let's have a look now at how these results translate into seats for each party in germany's bottom. and step one to start the see do you will not be the biggest spot in the

bonus tag with the $208.00 out of the total number of $630.00 seats. the social democrats got them to be still. the governing body would now have a $120.00 seats and the green positive, $85.00 seats. the product of tentative for germany now the 2nd largest policy and the parliament will have a $152.00 seats. do you mean get that's the left body? we'd have 64 seats. the fault i'd have done it. the for germany of the if the, with a big we know as last night managing to double their dissolved since the previous election. as well as sort of define the base, the a of the ultimate managed to mobilize support from 1800000 people who didn't vote for it in the last election over a 1000000 in german. so previously voted for the cd. you'll see is you cost the balance for the a if the induce induction. that a, if the alter absolved 890000 votes from the business friendly f t p policy and 720000. from the ruling social democrats. the electron autumn leaves different the

coalition options of students can possibilities. one is between the conservatives and the thought i'd say if the which would have an employee majority environment. but this is not happening because things like manse has wound optical illusion with the fee. the other coalition is with the s b d. this option will have a slim on majority in parliament. that is the most likely one. since manse rule collaborating with the far right as since then mass has said he would be going in with this option. and a quick recap of in depth coverage of the german elections you out on dw news motors in germany, have often to change conservative lucky they're free to commit these points to become the countries. next, johnson advocacy that you'll see is your lines. taking just under 50 percent of the mode match rolled up, holding a goal isn't for the fall, right? and the find out if these have to become germany's number to bother you having taken more than 20 percent of sunday's vote. the, the alice bible hailed the air these dumpling of the most in the last election and

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