of get more now on those challenges we are rejoined in the studio by heigho funk an expert at germany's for university a professor there and also from from again as friedrich schiller university gentlemen welcome to both of you we just saw a piece there about angela merkel about her her governing and also her career history just generally speaking in the wake of these election results where do you think that we are on that trajectory now at this point is this now the point at which she starts to descend. no sure america. and she will do it she's pregnant i think efficient and the other party members who will be in this possibly in this correlation know what they have to do there pragmatic petitions and they know that they are responsible for having that kind of government so she would do it again she did it already she's very tough. that's certainly something that is definitely not up for debate she is certainly very tough but you know the coalition that she is trying to get together we just want to remind our viewers it's a coalition of unlikely bedfellows and she really only has one o

natural reaction to that so let's play the blame game a little bit you know and i'll turn to you heigho because you know this is a guy you know the government the previous government has one that has been in the center as as oliver has highlighted was that a mistake i mean did they make a mistake by allowing this rise of the f.d.a. who was responsible. first of all of the people who go with that kind of rising populist movement since twenty fourteen. the f.t. with. their you know racist rhetoric and of course behind that we have challenges with respect to social security especially in eastern part of germany that is not. that is not done we have to have new solutions social solutions and what we have seen is that these kind of social fears you know unleashed to rage against scapegoats this is what this party did and you could have seen it today very clearly and this is the danger for democracy for democratic liberal culture so what the grand coalition could have done. of course they could have communicated better they could have done more debates but it was very clear and to to to descr