hofer but as we have said there is a clear sense on the part of the leadership here that a good deal has been reached last week and that it should first be put into action . i mean we should remind our viewers that the c.s.u. is the conservative party in bavaria bavaria will be seeing regional elections coming up in the next couple of months they have made migration the main issue during this time in many ways to face off a challenge from the anti immigration deep party they'll turn to for germany party how much can we perceive of these moves to be just campaigning or have to do more with internal politics. well it no doubt has a lot to do with the regional politics here the alternative for german the far right anti migration party which is a single issue party moved from being a single issue party against the euro now a single issue party on migration got twelve point four percent in the last elections here the very end now that was a shock and a blow to the c.s.u. which traditionally strives for an absolute majority fifty percent plus well it's now about forty percent here and it h

partners we do not want to see unilateral action so essentially condemning the course that mr say hofer has chosen in a way to stake his political career on. the right melinda crane at the c.d.u. party headquarters in berlin and krishna at the c.s.u. headquarters in new nick many thanks to both of you. on german interior minister horace a who for who is also the leader of the bavarian c.s.u. party has reportedly offered his resignation to his party who for it wants germany to turn away some asylum seekers at the country's borders by german chancellor angela merkel has insisted on europe wide solutions let's now take a look at the crack that has become a chatham for the counselor. it seems like ages ago but not even one year has passed since our give a miracle and her party won the last german elections for the fourth time in a row. but since then it has become lonely in the berlin chancellery americal could be undermined not by the opposition but by her closest allies because they simply cannot stand medical's liberal refugee policy the impetus came from this man horsey hoffa head of th

in their countries that in essence has been the core of this conflict the interior minister horsy hofer saying that he will proceed unilaterally to send refugees back to those countries the first registry if if essentially the european union member states couldn't get some forward movement at this summit so basically c.d.u. leadership saying in the past days look we got that movement we have seen some real achievements here and certainly unilateral action is not the right path at the moment so at the moment there's a lot of sarod solidarity with the chancellor's position here in the building in back of me. ok and there are of course all their parts as well mckayla that could be taken if we assume for example let's say who for is going to step back what would that mean. well that would raise yet more questions of who will really be at the helm here in the very end to anglo-american partner within the c.s.u. would be in the future so a lot of question marks there but we can already say that first of all this politically doesn't really add up from the c.s.u. polish position it has really s

boss and german interior minister hostie hofer isn't about to back down quietly after a long meeting of his party delegates save over threatened in the early hours of monday to step down as interior minister as well the c.s.u. party leader. sort of said the both posts will be fake and that this will happen in the next three days and that we will now again take an intermediate step to reach an agreement with the c.d.u. . it's wonderful to be grim reaper to be with. both parties want to try again today to find a compromise to save the conservative parliamentary group the social democrats or s.p.d. the third party in germany's governing coalition has been watching in disbelief from the sidelines has been but right i'm ready to continue with this government but there must be some action from the c.d.u. and c.s.u. . my patience is wearing thin. rightness it sounds i'm doing. parties in the opposition equally stunned by the escalation to try frontiersmen i doubt that the government will be able to work normally again they might save themselves from the face seal for will probably resign i

countries that migrants first enter because those are the countries to which the interior minister horsy hofer would like to send back refugees who have already been registered in those countries she did apparently have some success with the effort to get agreement with those countries including for example greece and spain spain receiving a lot of migrants at present and it has said it would take back refugees so her party said they believe what she achieved in both those pot lateral agreements and in brussels is far more than anything that the interior minister could achieve with his threat to go it alone. so mckayla as we've heard you know she went above and beyond her call of juicy as it seems or at least cd you seem to think that but say over is not happy with the deal will he be able to convince the rest of the party in the ship that he's rice according to these reports of course that i've just been making. well that's an interesting point because those who were speaking as they entered the building one of them was manfred to be both the leader of the european peoples party in the europe

the reports are that mr say hofer has offered or asked to be dismissed but now the wrangling is over who his successor would be and of course possibly the conflict could simply simmer on if his party doesn't back down from the stance that it wants to proceed unilaterally on issues of migration well earlier chancellor merkel said in an interview that the formal agreements and verbal commitments that she had secured from her e.u. partners at the summit in brussels last week it would have the migrant migration stemming effect that the c.s.u. had been pushing before but it would do so in a more european in a more coordinated fashion so what exactly could horsy hope for be dissatisfied with here shiela. well he clearly wanted to see something that amounts to that has the same effect as migrants being a turk turned away from the german border if they are already registered in a different european union state and that basically was the decision by the c.s.u. party that the german chancellor who asked for another two weeks which she did get from her own delegates and then also got from the c

they sucked wine they spoke long and hard with each of the didn't come up with agreement wholesale hofer came out saying it's been pointless the meeting and this is the this is a meeting with a woman who said i can't work with that woman i can't see where this is going to go i can't see how this can be a happy end for or say over here some people asking the question what the interior minister taking such a stand against the chancellor threatening the entire government why can't simply fire her interior minister she could do she did i think she what she wants is she wants jose over to fire himself effectively she wants him to. she wants him to step down and go away she wants to retain the moral high ground she doesn't want to be seen to be the aggressor she wants to have the zero option open to work with the c.s.u. in the future so that because that that conservative bloc is so very important she doesn't want to create a left liberal bloc she wants to stay in the center ground center right ground of german pool politics so she doesn't want to burn her boats with the c.s.u. so she doesn't

about what points they would like to add to the mix because of course the interior minister mr say hofer has managed to get the chancellor to go along with a policy that wasn't in the coalition agreement and maybe the s.p.d. would like to do a similar additional deal so that could be part of what's happening here the fact that the s.p.d. is sounding relatively optimistic about this might come as a bit of a surprise because three years ago during the mass influx of refugees to germany the s.p.d. roundly rejected transit centers which are now being proposed but that was then and now in fact all mainstream parties have moved closer to the center or even to the right on migration policy driven partly by anxiety about the rise of the far right wing party the a.f.d. and fears that they could make further gains for example if new elections were to be held but the irony here is that in their sometimes paralyzed anxiety about that party they wind up adopting parts of its own platform and jettison their own principles and that may in fact be true of the social democrats as well so are we looking a

we stood in this same place and it looked like the government could well fall apart in fact mr say hofer had staked not only his own political career but in many ways also the future of his party on winning this conflict it looks now like they have found some kind of middle ground between the chancellor's position that she does not want to divert from the international agreements that were reached at last week's summit in brussels among european union member countries and also the bilateral agreements that she has reached with countries on europe's external border in regard to returning refugees who had initially been registered there so she has stuck by her guns saying she is not willing to go for a german unilateral solution where the interior minister simply shuts down the borders in bavaria and start sending refugees back without consulting with their affected e.u. member countries on the other hand misters a hope for clearly was looking for at least a symbolic win here and frankly brant this entire conflict is all about symbolism there is no pressing crisis at the german or at the e

political correspondent you know has a who's here in the studio with me right now so nina if horsy hofer has just offered to resign if those reports are true it doesn't actually mean that he has already resigned does he what are his motives. there were some very important meetings on both sides of those system parties and on. sides and a parent they were tossed off to his party delegates was three options one that they could accept uncle americal steel one that they could flat out reject it and risk a really severe crisis or three that he would offer his resignation we still have to wait for his personal statement that was initially announced for last night then it was postponed for a few hours and we're still waiting for it so he's now two hours over to you at least and we still need to find out whether it's personal motives or whether there's a political strategy of sorts. so if whores they hope for does step down as interior minister does this mean that the government automatically falls apart. first of all if he offers to resign that needs to be accepted by his see as. uso one of the