couple of weeks ago as well we saw a potential successor come into the limelight that was an eclipse karrenbauer who was appointed as the secretary general of the c.d.u. that's merkel's party so already even merkel herself is taking those steps to really groom a successor. and speaking of successors the s.p.d. as you swing. leading the charge to reject this deal with chancellor merkel's conservatives why is the grand coalition so unpopular among some of these s.p.d. members well it really comes down to this kind of profile and identity crisis that they see that the s.p.d. is facing right now very much like many of the social democratic parties across your. but what was even worse for germany social democrats was that for two of michael's coalition governments they've served with the. conservatives and that's really had a bad effect on their profile now merkel moved her conservatives very much to the center and by doing so she was able to poach a lot of the s.p.d. proposals so you saw the s.p.d. the social democrats doing a lot of the legwork but not really profiting from it so right now a lot of

few weeks we've seen her lining up or at least reportedly lining up a new successor after i click karrenbauer was appointed to the general secretary general of the c.d.u. that's merkel's party so it is clear that merkel is already preparing to leave. but what's expected if there is a no result is that merkel could in fact form that minority government which she has previously rejected but then it's possible that we could maybe see her step down early and not actually hold a full four year term in office but there's a twenty eight year old gentleman kevin coonass who's the head of the s.p. d.'s youth wing and he's actually leading the charge to reject this deal with chancellor merkel because over tubes and he's been canvassing voters across the country to vote no. he doesn't look like a revolutionary but kevin kuhn it may end up reshaping german politics the twenty eight year old head of the social democrats youth wing is leading the opposition to a continuation of the grand coalition in past weeks he has traveled over five thousand kilometers and packed event halls across germany. sponsored f