vented into the parliament because of what we stand full of the positions of the people who trusted us and the very first thing we're going to do is to deliver on that first promise. we are going to stop a commission of inquiry against chancellor merkel. which will clearly look into what they say lady has done to contravene little doc was another reason why we went into a problem and ladies and parker. we have come to stay. well. so let us accept this office with humility with care. to all future members of parliament.

always be aware of your response ability of what we have to do the for this country and for the voters who trusted us we owed them and we will deliver many many fine. i. mean i'm still. alive. well you know what. i look at it all. i know i'm. right i'm yeah.

i'm. right i'm happy to have a picture of three of us but let's make five in this sentence because she's the most attractive and. how do you come to my explaining prose with this from the f.t. as well but you wish you were there so thank you for being with us tonight to give us your insight not just about the success as it seems to have been of your politics tonight but ramifications of the other results of the come through tonight and some of the failures as well. popping the champagne corks but of course a lot of people very happy about what happened tonight as well that they have to go and since it's all the most right wing party to win seats in parliament in sixty years what it's like what's it like inside the come over see the celebrating but i hear there are protests outside colleague openings on law.

was an announcement taking that only end but there is celebration going on i don't know but you know i mean. you know she wanted to be had they gave me very much a celebrity and i changed she was talking about a setting this you know us on a night scene and then it seemed to you from about to start setting up what you are you know i think when i actually runs an update on you know what happened and i got wind of it shall write back in two thousand and thirteen i think he might mean ultimately you know for a start it was about getting on with the job i mean both basically got you know we know everybody by you know i mean i think you know i was like a young girl was writing on my way i think who makes. the election now that young kids by saying oh it's getting to the national i thought you know heading down. to questions are we just talking about. and we're off.

the streets and the last one in the fall boy. well let's move on now so the results as i look at the moment the late. c.d.u. not done as well as we thought merkel. her party thirty three point three percent the s.p.d. say they don't be in the grand coalition in future not in shorts and social democratic party for them in second with twenty percent he was hoping for a lot more big gains this year for the old terms of the germany party they're going to enter parliament for the first time and so far scoring just over thirty percent meantime close behind is the free democratic party with term point five percent seen as the most likely coalition partner for angle a merkel thirty eight year old in charge there good night for him while the left party and the greens looks set to get around nine percent as well. following the

first exit poll showing that the f.d.a. comes in third in the election the party's leaders have proclaimed historic victory they've given an outline of what they're going to do let's listen. to. the battle isn't over yet. they are going to do everything. to push us into right wing corner i think now we have achieved what is really a particularly revolution which is happening here at six o'clock today and that again is nothing but really a return to normality the slogan refugees welcome once and to america slogan and that's going to be what it used to be a left wing radical loony slogan. we are going to be tough but constructive clear but factual. right we're going to we're done hawkins now he's at the c.d.u. h.q.

in moscow not a great night for merkel she said it's been fun and they going to pop the champagne corks later either which way she's still at the helm here in germany tonight dan what's it like there she's pretty pragmatic about it she said she was a bit disappointed made the best of it but end of the day she's still there the question is who she going to go into coalition with next she's not not going to go into coalition with the talking about this jamaica coalition which also is very complicated will tell our viewers about that in a minute but it was a flavor of what it what it's like at the merkel's camp right now. kevin it was a big cheer resigned with merkel appeared on stage despite tonight really being a bittersweet night we see do you vote to see do you supporters and founds a banker muckle it's been a fair victory for her if you like she does remain at the helm of the country should fourth term in office but the c.d.u. there says the boss of this year's hugh labeled the union together they have had

losses a speedy as well they fall into a post-war load with the result rudd twenty percent next force will see six parties in parliament here as opposed to war and the s.p.d. of course the big news coming from them is that they refused to go into coalition they will be the new position there were fears before the opposition would be that they have to deal with the airspeed being ruled out of another grand coalition they're likely to take the helm and i'll speak your butt to make a coalition merkel really but of any time forming this new coalition with the freedom party and with the greens opposing those parties have made gains will be a tough time there was no said rushing out any deals there but as you said kevin she is problematic as she ended her speech with will have a bit of a party will do except some champagne and get back to work so very much a matter got issued from mrs markle she. still of a strong base of support despite these losses she's been criticized in the past for

flip flopping on certain policies from a refugee open door policy to gay marriage but germans still do view her as a safe they're a house if you like as a stable predictable leadership with many feeling. now at the time they're living in germany they're having it the best they ever had so despite these losses germany . of arkle will have her for sure will like her made shots and she was lucky for the jamaica coalition for those of you not following the election so closely now wondering what exactly that means here's a breakdown of what could happen in just a few weeks time there was a. german parties really emerge with a solid majority from the elections so when it's over the try to make friends which is not easy after having tried hard to undermine each other's policies during complaining but the good news is for the politicians you can always see story we can't keep our election promise because our coalition partners won't let us which

is not good news for the voters though you might ask so what was the point when you basically get a program that you didn't vote for. there is no guarantee that what you as a voter would like. to see in terms of politics going to really turn out there is no guarantee that you will be in the majority after the election and therefore there is no guarantee that what you as a voter want to be turned into politics will really work out in this way. so what kind of government might germany get. here's the twenty seventeen range of coalition coloring book. there's a combination known as the jamaica coalition if merkel's christian democratic union or c.d.u. partners with the business friendly free democratic party and the greens. if

the greens and the democrats managed to. take the black out and replace it with the freedom across. the traffic like.

part of any coalition germany's socialist party it must be the wrong sheet of the color red the left part. by bigger party it's. a similar case but the end of the spectrum is the alternative for germany branded as far right by critics. charge but so far. seems reluctant to rule over the. time of. preferential. wide with having two major parties get presentation. across with a great night for you let's bring you back in again let's not talk about the big bone of contention that every talked about in the talk about your party of immigration think what else you bring into the party this resonated with. because you have done better

a lot of people here in germany would have wanted you to your opposition are going to think i guess first this culture just like in america it's good in the country back feeling that the culture is shifting away from the people and second is economics so you say economy is doing pretty well that's not true so true because if you look at the wages and you see wages and inflation rate of eight years on the same level for the last fifteen years so people work a lot of work hard in germany but their wages on the same level for the last fifteen years but the state has increased its tax income by seven dollars and countries neighboring countries in europe so you germans aren't doing too bad are you not really if i come from sexily and we look to the czech republic into poland ok they are poorer than we are but they have an increase we don't have an increase its second and signal makes people happy and is not a good result for government so a good night for you but don't wrestle laurels too much because uncle merkel's

already spoken about this to cheers and angie angie we just saw her rally there she told supporters that the far right in the bundestag for the first time will present what she calls a big new challenge you're going to have representatives now for the first time since the second world war your party the far right are very very right wing as not as an opposition how is that going to work. the thing is that if he is a very has a very wide base see you i'm not sure whether they are really far right i would be considered in the usa. we have some far right but most are i would say east coast republicans and they are in and they make president bring it back into the parliament floor which he hasn't seen there over the last twenty years so people can look into parliament debates and to see something they don't agree to everything i mean that's a big change of political culture in germany is that what went wrong really for merkel people said she was you know she was steering. steady ship but where was it

going as the wind blew she turned one way as the wind blew the way she turned the other way it's good to keep a steady ship of people want some some dynamism moving forward as you're saying there has been a heck of a lot of concern across the whole of europe about the immigration thing now where are you standing on that as it stands the moment you're going to have elected people. governing this country over our shoulder in a couple of months time what is your party stand on tonight what about the immigrants they hear some of that hellish lives they've come from hell to get here to fight for work except rick cetera. it's part of the responsibility surely as a german even vita these these guys here to now say ok well you know you live with us you live with us in peace what's the future with you guys in the opposition the first thing is that we close the border to stop that new come in and there we have those who are in and we want that those who have no right to be here who are just illegally here that they are pushed. to their home countries.

may in some cases mean punishment death then they have a right to stay here how do we work that out that's a whole new layer of admin there is really they have it to the point is no you have to take an example if you've taken the garion. three percent of them have the right to stay here because they are feared by prosecution back home but only three percent are pushed out it means ninety six percent of all immigrants from nigeria they are in the country they have no punishment there but they are then pushed but if they're coming in the doing jobs. in britain for instance a lot of the eastern european workers will do the jobs some of the lesser paid jobs and health care jobs cleaning jobs etc actually a lot of the brits won't do you can have the same problem here these guys are coming over here some of them are working a lot of the working and they're contributing to the society what's wrong with that all you east europeans from britain to germany the problem is we have do is warmer . we have

a illicit rate of over fifty percent of our immigrants and you brits are very smart because you took all the busy and and small. and broken polish guy is from from czech republic we have people from from the middle east who are not able to learn even the language which are not integrated zoners would know a little more if you can't say just use the color of the skin with the most knowledge never i say it's education it's language is the ability to read and to write away from the immigration thinks i'm sure your ears are ringing with it as well it seems that you've done very well we're talking about the thirty eight year old leader of the of the f.t.p. earlier on he's done well he's popular with the ladies and gentleman you've done very well with a gentleman tonight it seems you've got more male voters the nerve than female voters you surprised about that. you want to hit with the women in your party i'm sure you are but the party as we know we know that there is that we are working on

it but what do you have to know about this guy from the liberals is he he changed his party into a one man show i don't believe in one man shows i believe a political party is relative party members are discussing the plan does nothing to two factor it seems the man i was talking about predominantly overwhelmingly were from. former east germany from the east why are you more popular there. there's a lot of theories going around the most popular among those voters that east germany . restored more traditions more german cultural culture because they were like understand the communism was a kind of snow and a lot of old german culture of us be loaded so there is more conservative thinking in their minds this is one theory and the other theory is that the east germans they are looking a little bit to czech republic poland and if you look to. c.e. countries are politically from from rest germany seems very right wing and so is

germany as the look in the middle between the right wing c. countries and the more liberal left west european countries you said you're going to introduce opposition at let's just try and work this no we've got the exit poll just for our viewers to work this through it's pretty complicated there was this grand coalition which is now not going to be the s.t.p. said they're not going to be with angela merkel any more than to go their own way these are exit polls at the moment the polls are still being counted because there is a high proportion of very high proportion of postal votes predominantly i gather because a lot of older population and they prefer to do it that way rather than going to a polling booth they're not going to be out for the first six seven hours yet so that's when they're going to get to the very final but it's probably not going to change much more these votes just a percentage up or down here is that right now how does that all convert to how many bottom sit on seats over there in the in the bundestag over my shoulder

because that doesn't happen immediately does it one of the around the figure how does it work that you have two votes and the second vote decides on the percentages of seats but if there is a very popular or very uncomfortable. distribution between the first vote on the second vote and the number of seats is increasing so it can be the. six hundred thirty one see it as a head and the prior educate and it can grow up to six hundred seventy six hundred eighty seats the system needs to get reform but that's the merkel problem she is not reforming anything so she's just continuing as it was and makes that my worth certainly she campaigned on the vote for what you know but it didn't resonate with as many people as she'd hoped we could leave it there for now as we know martin short saying tonight. that he doesn't want to progress with this grand coalition

very disappointed at the result they're going to go off and regroup they say there will be an opposition at the moment at least he's staying as the chairman but despite martin shows being on the america's man election rival it seems the two have got a bit that they agreed on at least in public anyway as more ghastly of reports next choices choices choices leave which to remain. in clinton crown and all of that money meant just this issue with global caution now it's germany's track must go to a sure thing east north that much of a different take merkel's refugee policy nobody else will have a clear stance on any refugee name which is that i will not accept it. and he is sure to mention those people bring also is more valuable than money does what you are believes in the same story with europe they want more and more you wrong

war union and russia and germany wield fairly well open europeans who believe trans national democracy is the best model for us to stand up and break the silence shoots a former president of the european parliament. the leader of europe's powerhouse as i think it here we europeans have our things in our own hands i'll continue to maintain that the twenty seven member states must work intensively together for our future. the two even share a dislike of if not hatred for the man in charge across the ocean. in the topic there are lots of concerns about their direction of the north korean dictator we need the united states of america as a peaceful holocaust but we have to bring them on the path of rationality and that means diplomatic solutions. the problem that we have with trump is that he is

unpredictable in that sense should we talked to not even a pre-election debate couldn't get the two to clash sparks to fly what was supposed to be a jewel looked more like a jew it civil and stella could us over pierce i was like a little guy you thank you. for america station thank them made a difference in this. but one german we put it the biggest difference between merkel it sure is that the more ideas the. thank. were good or not it's a divorce from tonight so the later the social democratic party martin scholz was unable to hide his disappointment at the early exit polls this is his response spot hour ago he spoke to his party and supporters to say just really within the last

hours the news. thank you. even. today is a difficult day for social democracy we missed out on our electorate go after losing our central region and we lost the federal election of. modern shells was merkel's main rival of course in this election is a quick look at what the former european parliament president is known for among voters.

in contrast to the other impassioned elections in europe the german campaigns repeatedly been described as pretty much a lot less but some of the candidates have still made their lunch with a range of striking posters i saw an elephant of my shoulder earlier on believe you me not so there's nothing this can quite random stuff going on here so let's look at the posters some of the kind of still made the headlines or the range of these striking things we collected some show you get

a likeness of ill. me

. now it's about the elephant. in the middle of berlin look twice as well a particular unusual election day stand for real elephant was filmed wandering around berlin city center. here it is. who feel. the activists. say they were inspired by the english expression an elephant in the room. they believe the result of the referendum in germany is one such elephant they say. the campaign has said that over seventy percent of people in the country want that to be votes on key political decisions but they say the german government is so far ignored their calls so elephant behaved very well not too much mess left behind thankfully the latest we have leading the way as expected these and go merkel's christian democratic union with thirty three percent of the votes tonight according to those

exit polls martin schulte said the social democratic party a bad night for they're there in second with twenty percent they've already said they don't want to go forward in any grand coalition they want to divorce they're going to go their own way big gains this year for the alternative for germany party they are going to enter parliament for the first time we've just been talking to makes a million so far they're just scoring over thirteen percent. from the f.t. our guest earlier on he's very pleased his party's very pleased a lot of people of course will be very upset and disappointed that members of that party going to be in the bundestag tonight the first time a far out party like that has been in parliament is since the second world war so it's big news it's going to resonate not only in this the most powerful country within europe but in the rest of europe as well do a lot of comments about that in the morning we're going to cover it to our coverage goes on all night and all day tomorrow now close behind the free democratic party with ten percent but seen as the most of the. coalition partner for angela merkel

now she's got a headache of course she won't none of the main parties will go in coalition with the f.t. there soli going to be opposition so it's next how it's going to play out and who thinks they can work along with each other the whole mass of nations going to go on for about a month or so maybe maybe six six weeks or so they work out how many people end up in the bundestag or the left party in the greens look set to get around nine percent pretty much as expected for their time here in berlin is no twenty eight minutes past seven in the evening that's really the thrust of how it's looking after the big vote here today for the so much more to come on this as we take in the results a corresponds to right at all the camps let's do a bit of sightseeing take that crane shot were by the side of the river spray as they call it here right outside the one of our a r d one of our t.v. colleagues but right outside the borders what shop can you see yeah lovely isn't it but a beautiful afternoon here as well it's been

a good day for the alternative which is only party and even though not so good for angela merkel she's not crying into her boots she's of throwing the pop of the champagne corks later we're back in half an hour with more. and.