our past the guilt that we had had. there was no room i mean mentally no room for such a party it's no different and i think it's you have to watch closely what happens because that can be a danger but it can also be a release. date tackling them and thank you so much for coming on and we really appreciate your time thank you think you're going to say ok so may right let's look at the projected results is a shot going up it's now exactly nine o'clock at night here in berlin and live without internationally as cover though in the here and with your continuing law of coverage going in through the night for next six hours as we take in the ramifications of a big vote the exit polls are in the counting so going on we think could be before six hours we think he's going to take it so it could be three in the morning for we get a final final on this and the way leading the way as expected angela merkel's christian democratic union with thirty three percent of the vote but not quite as good as she

had hoped she's already said that she has been fun to get there are along the way but she's a bit disappointed but talking a disappointment he shows me a social democratic party are in second place with just twenty percent a lot less than he had hoped for but it's big gains this year for the alternative for germany party they're going to enter parliament for the very first time and so far scoring just over thirteen percent coming in a place behind dan maes the free democratic party with ten percent and that's because i like a coalition partner for angela merkel now and what about the greens well the greens talk to them just now didn't we but also said to get nine percent let's not get either the left party eight percent so pretty much what expected no less of a mix of how the main parties reacted when those results started coming in.

i know you've got to this is the history of our party i mean we vented to the stars and i will change this country. we have achieved what is really a particularly revolution which is happening at six o'clock today. thank you for this. mislead the c.d.u. would have hoped for a better result but we mustn't forget that we achieved our strategic objectives we are the strongest party we have a mandate to form a new government and no government can be formed against or without us and of course there is a big new challenge ahead of us the a.v. party will be joining german parliament who want to win back those who boarded for the air to find out their concerns and worries. thank

you thank you today's a difficult day for social democracy we missed out on our electoral goal after losing our central region and we lost the federal election. just over seventy five percent of germany's sixty one million eligible voters have cast their ballots that's according to early estimates another say higher than the two thousand and thirteen is going to be a bit lower than the earlier it seems a bit higher than live think the postal vote is and the iraq war turnout for that we'll see of the coming hours though are merkel's christian democrats to come out on top they will not have a majority in the bundestag over a shoulder here they are going to need to form a coalition but raises lots of questions because the choice is actually as we discussed the last fifteen minutes pretty limited. one of two possibilities nikki

one isn't one possible option that was in alliance with their traditional partners the social democrats however their leader martin shell says now rejected that possibility he says his party pays party will go into opposition to his reasoning i think either and go away and regroup for another four years they've been a bit strong as the junior coalition partner along the way and actually spitting feathers about merkel tonight is missing in this round table who are calling him a bad loser online aren't they they tell you hey do you think of repetition there was the other possibility that while one other possibility is called the so-called jamaican coalition it would seem cause d.d. you team up with the pro-business free democrats as well as the green but the free democrats in the greens disagree on so many issues which would make the process extremely tough some commentators are even predicting now that germany could be heading for a new election imagine not will be hurt ok let's go to. the hawkins now he's out the c.d.u. h.q.

merkel i don't think is there she'll probably be there later when she she's at this big broadcast going on across a big round table or the leaders of a and i'm saying it's been fun getting here but she didn't seem very overwhelmed by the support she got from the electorate here in germany tonight so what is the feeling there are they celebrating are they happy other sad for the better what is it. it's been a bit of a bittersweet night kevin for the c.d.u. hasn't the certainly been no shortage of beer and wine and burgers and german sausage flowing here but this is very much been a victory for merkel and party she has won the majority of the biggest party she used to the remaining chancellor she will have the task of feeling awful having a new coalition the task is very much an envious task and they have made losses as of course of the s.p.d. field. loss since the second world war in fact post-war germany russia lation seven

pouring in from the leaders of a stone in the way near the form of belgian premier britain's so brics its chief negotiator i shall be interesting to see how this german government will impact those bricks and go chasing to still be any change in starts in the european parliament president to antonio joining his russian into the market as well look forward to working together through strength in europe and for a strong europe buckler self of course as we heard in that clip earlier she was here but a very big cheer from my supporters she went on stage expressing a pretty pragmatic standpoint saying there's no rush to form a new government they have several weeks to do that saying the surge that they have to win back that a.f.d. that has been merkel's very much weak points if she has been popular with voters because of germany's stability the economy forgot appointments immigration has no real border her side that market crisis back to twenty or fifteen. that really

opened the door to the a.f.p. becoming well joining effectively mainstream political discourse something unthinkable before then the terror attacks as well that in twenty six the multiple terror attacks in germany i think that was something else that made voters go over to the a.f.p. the fact one poll just in front of me says hoff of all german votes is not just for the german voters say that but only pausing to consider the safety a priority on the people's concerns about safety as well so that was very much an issue that actually coalitions you discussed that early and if you of course s.p.d. martin shultz has built himself out of the coalition probably because of the opposition to something unthinkable for the social democrat leader but merkel has responded since then and the two going on now she said she's noted the s.p.d. this. but she says let's talk again tomorrow that's

a very. logical thing to say really wait and see logic time see how things go and come to sort of consensus whether that will profit off of course is an entirely different question this victory for much less both puts on the top five of the standing jevon charts and is number one is often a fact in the german empire. some of those as well before what poll of polls cost way back in june if i'm going about this to see through this new next four years that will make all fall within germany's longest serving shots in modern history in fact solo seven many of the younger voters here no longer remember any of the leader of tools so let's get small background on laugh out of life the fun lies in both those results in the i doubt was on tomorrow as well.

the time i remember she was always there i mean i can't really remember a time when she wasn't like the chancellor and i don't even know who came before her. as only met a nice chap you want to get a makeover said i think she was elected in two thousand and five for the first time i was like seven she's just been around for ever she's always been an image she's been in power a long time there's a piece is kind of us myself. i've never been an adult without going back to governing. in two thousand and five she was elected for the first time i was only thirteen. i pierced my ear lobe. a

boy from my school died in a traffic accident. in fukushima the core melted people died. i went to mississippi for a year as an exchange student. blacks voted obama whites mccain barack obama became the first black president. and. the passage of time ticks on doesn't it but i'm glad merkel still the helm going into no way to take the suit still twenty twenty one incidentally just looking at this run table the go in at the moment on national television here she still says she's with the work for growing coalition is being told she's still saying mathematically it could happen though i'm not. specialized enough to work out how that could be if the. if the if what if short of saying that no we don't want to

get involved in this anymore i don't know how it can happen we'll find out more of a force of a bit later but she still says be thinking that could still be some kind of grand coalition rather than the other coalitions we're talking about tonight i'm going to will be speaking live later be crossing over and bringing you that live coverage one thing was very certain from the offset though and that was when the initial results came in it was immediately clear that the controversial alternative for germany policy would enter parliament for the very first time now a lot of people not very happy with their protesters being stationed outside the headquarters of the f.d.a. we're going to treat them as well we're watching over them from that balcony a police presence scuffles reported as well as also been some heated exchanges let's take a look. yeah it was.

was was was was. was was. was was. was was. was. was. and i crowd outside the f.t. h.q. there it's been steadily growing over the hours and then appearing in this and live television conference on german television right now the f.t. leader your newton has claimed that his party welcomes all germans he also people from a migration of background so perhaps trying to call them would call the living worry

people are people very manly against. this right wing party the first one to be in opposition since the in the second world war money for the not to be sitting there in this big place of responsibility given some of the comments the various representatives have come out with over the years from two hundred thirteen own words but it's been also a very big success for them tonight you know looking that way they've not been around this party very long on the polling pretty well tonight they're going to get representatives over our shoulder in the bundestag. we have so many people a lot of people are worried and concerned about this latest developments and protests like we said are still taking place outside the f.t. h.q. our correspondent politico is there for us because now to see the latest volley and you bring us up to speed on what's happening there with the a.s.d. eight. yeah well i was insulted before i was quite surreal is when you go from this kind of very you know

a grown up policy inside and you get outside and there is this enormous growing that is protesting against these unprecedented gate that the f.d.a. has made there's almost a sense that you're in some sort of the culmination of a dystopian hollywood blockbuster only this real and the game that the f.d.a. has made. huge they will be entering college all the time and the people here are very unhappy about it now they've been chanting slogans they've been pulling a season or to not see they've also been talking about a.n.c. yeah sounds good but you're not wanted here which point reflects the fact actually that the f.t. isn't that in budget support bases very much in the east of germany that's right did well in today's election and also some can do it at. the faces of the protest they also so young from paths to the average age have been

a surprise or in half the politician that we were seeing are just as in the party because these are students and lot of young people and really reflective of the divide in the support base pull everybody else and the asti one of the all the slogans that they've been challenging as well is no humans are illegal so that obesity referencing the estes and seek immigrant stars and you're happy with it they don't agree with it they say it about big l g b t flag as well that's the way now that's is probably in reference to the fact that this is a right wing party if there was something very socially conservative even though i point out that one of their top candidate believes that if he's actually going to get a say on some discrepancies that still great they speak the state and. very right now at the same time. there is a policy that i want to celebrate the one of the top candidates one of the leaders

of the a.n.c. this is actually a well formed goal and she said so i just ignore you then they laugh at you then they fight you and then you say now ok. ok. ok i see even the most that they form the worst they can say to the. state because look at me. down like i mean they are getting bigger it's kind of noble police having to separate anyone who might be coming out this rather glamorous same day golfing and i guess that from this growing crowd credibly angry protest is so as the bit sorry oh yes gets loud and as it gets rowdy take a look at what was happening inside just a few moments ago. financial muscle may have come out small and small but this is

the policy of the setting a pretty good job of raining on the way they have come in the looks like it according to preliminary results on the bed in that a.s.d. camp is incredibly stupid that have many speeches from the two candidates already talking about taking the street back and very reminiscent of the scene from the road breaking out in the u.k. that trumps the forces of the u.s. and the support of the bronx and this is more of the story very much based on the astonishment these would seen elsewhere as well u.s. and on happy with the immigration policy in particular and to much his decision to lessen over a million refugees but you see thousands on the deed taking did not force out the a.n.c. . it comes down. wish

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see a fabulous mint rhetorics comic it's all about political correctness and until you know these i think that to find them hard i mean and they haven't been scared about being provocative it was about one thing that's basically meaningless for him is that advertising campaign based and that they had during the run was relaxed and maybe chad's women in bikini were saying we'll show you speak to these are the factors that need today and they told us about being born with a crazy. pregnant teenager i mean lazy about it having people come into the country and because it was just meant to be instead of a lot of supposedly possible way that they feel vilified by the mainstream media the mainstream political parties here that won't have anything to do with them and the foreign minister having to have any effect on them i've not seen him but that's the sort of thing that tends to. like never went back to the old it looks like the name on it was it was in the end of

a very minute and happy politician here and thinking this really is a watershed thing because it might even be that's out in two thousand and sixteen now are they going to be getting any sense that we are living and they're going to be and need you know my mission will most often see i think it was ninety nine in as well say they actually celebrating the victory. was probably void inside as the party continues the outside you can see a little take a box there would continue to show those live pictures pretty quiet at the moment very small for me to see if you can probably see a hobo than me it's all lit up at the moment the police are there there are a hundred or so we think probably maybe more protesters earlier on the police said they have been some scuffles. over a thousand yeah. the fascist protesters the interesting that round table that i've been talking about that just finished this traditional televised debate where all

the leaders then attend apparently the f.d.a. counted on this round table said magnanimously they accept even people with migrant background which seems to be a turnaround from what they've said in the past. maybe it needs a bit more detail but anyway of the minimum of five hundred ninety eight seats up for grabs in this german election bear with me a second this is going to run i don't know it's going to run let's run that scripture we thank you very much in the german bundestag angela merkel c.d.u. party has so far won two hundred eighteen passin shots on the social democrats comes next with one hundred thirty eight seats while the alternative for germany party enter parliament for the first time as has been much documented tonight with think eighty seven seats but sounds quite precise because the results aren't all in yet so i'm not quite sure nor gessner tell us about this in a minute home. could be so precise but anyway eighty seven seats we think that could of course change those numbers are unlikely to shift very much though

although of course the postal votes are still being counted over the next six hours and less time than most of us bring in i guess at this club service even by my service to my eyes i thank you for coming in and join it joining us in our studio here i think the big question on everyone's mind right now is what is the key what is his secret i'm going to learn javits she's been there is going to be sixteen years now that she's been at the top of the pile how does she do it in my opinion probably by not really having a very clear set of principles she seems to just sort of. go with the flow and whatever is necessary at the time she does and that seems to be good because if you look at what she used to say back in about ten years ago or something she said we had enough problems with the immigrants that we have and we have to concentrate on the. she said multiculturalism is it doesn't work that's what she said like twelve years ago and today she's saying. i will make it somehow we'll get all these people

in the jobs and we'll get them educated so. the flow of migrants has been stem that was a lot of them were coming through the whole composite from from greece except for exceptional stock it i'm going to have let's say for political bacon though really didn't it because if that flowed continued even though the numbers are diminished i wish you'd likely wish you'd like to be it's not i wonder if it would have even been lower yes certainly and the irony of the situation is of course that the whole time that orbán was building his fancies she was out there saying fences don't hold back people you know and all the while fences do hold back people as it turns out and that saved like you said her put a political bacon but she was fighting tooth and nail the whole time that that doesn't happen that these borders don't get built so it is it's pretty ironic that she was basically on the wrong side of the fence now on the whole time. now she's profiting from the fact that oregon went and did the hard decisions and she wasn't

willing to do. a widely credited for making the f.t. so popular as they've turned into paying over the last couple of years they're going to get seats in the place over all show the. talk about the seat is it too early imo no we clarified it by saying we can't quite work does that sound about royal and that with eighty seven seats let's. think so i mean even if it's eighty or ninety it doesn't really matter it's as big it's a big group of people in there really will be the strongest fraction. behind the s.p.d. and that gives them the speaking rights right after the government says something in parliament they'll be able to counter it right away and you can bet there is going to be some real discussions going on in the stuff like haven't been seen in decades because we've already got martin short saying these guys should have got no place in the bundestag they should be kicked our. defender of democracy martin schulz is saying that a party that has just gotten thirteen percent of the german vote has no place in

the bundestag i mean these democrats are really something else the enemies of democracy have been in the bundestag today i mean until now and so we're getting a fresh wind in here was going to start seeing discussions about things that we haven't seen before the real problems need to be addressed and i think it's going to be very interesting to the debates that we're going to see in the coming months and years and this is just about my place she's flip flopped on a lot of very key issues like gay marriage being one that they come to mind it's interesting that this do you think this is kind of undermined confidence and you think confidence is growing may she you know she's malleable confidence obviously hasn't grown otherwise she would have lost eighty percent of the vote just well i think she was forty one or something like that in the last election now she's down to what the three and that increase in vote just apparently seems. gone directly to the f.t. . so she's we can definitely shows that we're only as over the whole immigration

thing so i would say so but not just that but she's moved the whole city party far far away from where it was came to germany from canada in one thousand nine hundred eight and been watching the politics here interestedly for a long time and got bit actively six seven years ago and she has moved the party from right center party to left center party like significantly to the left and moved so far to the left that a big part of the population sees no representation of what they believe in what they what's important to them and that has left basically a massive gap on the right side of the. legitimate political spectrum which has now been filled by a new party so it's her fault that the f.t. even exists it would never have existed never of a risen under say cole he would never have allowed this he never would have moved the party the way michael did so america has destroyed the s.p.d. by basic crushing them on the left but has opened up

a massive gap on the right which has been all been filled by the. i think i show says that pledge to take the s.p.d. into a position do you think you being a soul is that. maybe he's just realizing if he goes for another large coalition that next election will be down to fifteen percent and he wants to avoid that fate how long is he going to hang around him of the they said they want to keep him as chairman for now tonight on the going to want to do going to say that how long is he going to be around you think realistically. a few months or maybe a year or something more interesting is how long is michael going to be around she was talking a few days ago about fifty three elections while she can just forget about a fifth reelection utility oh yeah that's not going to happen but this is the worst showing since the second world war is now i mean i just go to the grave face so i don't expect to see her longer than about two years in about two years time they're going to see. it's going to have to face up that they need a new candidate there's going to be the process of. bringing you know you say who's

in the shadows for that is not her mom or lee anybody out there because she has basically eliminated all opposition within the c.d.u. for years there that's a real weakness of this in you know there's nobody there she's basically eliminated all her opponents within the party all these years so i don't know where they're going to get people that are any good really i don't know about the a.f.p. that's a very well tonight we had a guy from the f.t. party on the show yesterday and he told is there any for the long game to do well today they're going to do better next year and on and on and on other force to be reckoned with it's going to be you know so emotional time and i think so ok thank you thank you for your time stephen my is a political of that i thank you very much thank you. thank you i hope being with us as well always appreciate its cover and i would make here i'm with you special coverage from a very special place on the banks of the davis but they. are not spree continues into the night as we take in the results of this big vote let's take

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