now at the minimum as the five hundred ninety eight seats up for grabs in the german bundestag angela merkel c.d.u. party has so far won two hundred and thirty nine. in the social democrats can next with one hundred fifty seats while alternative germany this divisive group enter parliament for the very first time with ninety four seats back and of course change but those numbers are unlikely to shift all that much but we'll be here into the early hours of tomorrow morning and count with all the counts that those post or votes. if you're just joining us is her post turned from her post her leaving no here in berlin those police stations close to four and a half hours ago we pretty much have the initial exit polls literally within a millionth of six o'clock the closing but closing but a lot of postal votes happened as well very high proportion this year they are currently still being counted we think it was going to take maybe up to eight hours after the polling stations closed maybe nine hours nic you're going to be later on again it's still not going to be the absolutely final but it's going to be the be

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 do

let's talk about how this is going to shape up in the bundestag of the minimum five hundred ninety eight seats up for grabs angela merkel's c.d.u. partyhas so far won two hundred thirty nine martin so the social democrats can next with one hundred fifty seats while alternative for germany enter parliament for the first time with ninety four seats back could of course change but those numbers are unlikely to shift all that much in the coming year i could go up to more than seven hundred people sitting there by the time this is all thrashed out it's going to take a picture of our europe correspondent says he's going to work on all the day for we could see he says he's expected to get over this he's expecting to come back towards the end of november it still won't actually be totally thrashed that exactly. the representation the proportional represent representation of the amount of people will be sitting there it's going to the biggest spender star in terms of those you know history as well which just extraordinary now having spent years at the helm of the powerhouse until america has become a divisive figure for the blocs politics but

angela merkel's c.d.u. party is on course to win two hundred thirty nine seats in the bundestag us out of a total of five hundred ninety eight most insult scientists social democrats come next with one hundred fifty seats while alternative for germany and parliament for the very first time will have ninety four seats so with the shifting forces in parliament angela merkel will need to find a new coalition partner so let's now take a quick look at the likely path for the chancellor. the german parties really 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 campaigning but the good news is for the politicians you can always see 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. when you place you could get a program that you didn't vote for. there is no guarantee that what you would like to have. politics will really turn out there is no guarantee that you will be in the majority after the election and therefore