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 fact we only got twenty point five percent of the vote reflects the popularity of our policies as part of the government in recent years people can recognise the contours often s.p.d. in a grand coalition especially when there are seven parties. argues calmly not emotionally but he's touched a chord with many social democrats who fear that partnership with on the americans conservatives has completely rop the party of its identity and never have the s.p.d. his poll numbers been so bad. when you look at france the netherlands and elsewhere where social democratic support has declined to sing the digits and so after they've been in governments that don't have much to do with the social democratic ideals i think this is a clear warning after twelve years of ang

swing boss kevin kuhn are back in the spotlight he became the figurehead of the resistance against a grand coalition and despite his disappointment says it's one of the more coffee shops it's a democratic vote and of course we accept this result we're not sore losers and will try to make the best of it who can dispense to the votes tomorrow and how do the germans feel many are just happy to see a government take shape. when he does so if they can push through everything they are planning gladly otherwise new elections what good would that have done us now hopes for and it's not good whether it's good for the s.p.d.m. the long run i don't know it's been months now good for the s.p.d. or not no one knows for now but in any case it will benefit the coalition partner the christian democrats. this is no b.s. pretty result is a good basis in addition ninety seven percent support from the cd use similar support from the c.s.u. a good coalition agreement and a good team that's good governance. the german president also satisfied germany will soon have a new government. this is it is simply g

they do support this new grand quote that was surprisingly conclusive because we did we just saw kevin kuhn it's the head of the young socialists who said all the focus in the last week or two has been on him and the campaign he's been leading very dynamic young twenty eight years old huge rhetorical skills and one won't have been led to believe that he was going to be very very persuasive and he didn't prove his persuasive his seat and he sounded today he was he was ready to work within the parameters now that are given well yes he has a lot to offer the party because he you know he's not just his motivational skills but also he knows how to tap into grass roots motivations grassroots strategies and they're going to be so important to the social democrats if they're going to if they're going to move forward positive we're going to talk a little bit later on in the about the party politics in the country but i want to broaden this out for our audience and i want to ask both of you what do you think is the main takeaway for the world from the announcement that came today. the german is going

they do support this new grand quote that was surprisingly conclusive because we did we just saw kevin kuhn it's the head of the young socialists who said all the focus in the last week or two has been on him and the campaign he's been leading very dynamic young twenty eight years old huge rhetorical skills and one won't have been led to behave to believe that he was going to be very very persuasive and he didn't prove his persuasive his seat and he sounded. he was just ready to work within the parameters now that are given well yes he has a lot to offer the party because he you know he's not just his motivational skills but also he knows how to tap into grass roots motivations grassroots strategies and they're going to be so important to the social democrats if they're going to if they're going to move forward positive we're going to talk a little bit later on in the show about the party politics in the country but i want to broaden this out for our audience and i want to ask both of you what do you think is the main takeaway for the world from the announcement that came today. the german

youth leader kevin kuhn us here since there are the four work against grand coalitions my party friends and we say it's not with us they've been given you know it is one of the rising stars of twenty seventeen no one saw him coming kind of probably not even he did to this extent he is lowered his can i think kevin kernot will represent a deep seated desire in the s.p.d. . teves it isn't as insulting as we did. was. before christmas and the matter was still germany's acting chancellor going about the rituals associated with the job and trying to give the impression that she still had everything under control. at the same time the german president was searching for other coalition alternatives some of the talks ended quickly my dad isn't opposites sure. we're in the opposition we have to ensure our voices are heard you know but we have no place in a government with the other parties in the bundestag on the apartheid board decides it's a good this fall off my. things were getting lonely for the most powerful woman in the world. she had built up that reputation in more than twelve years as

this result will have implications on the upcoming three and javi use specially with regard to kevin kuhn and through my try to to ensure that the leading position in this body can come it can at the leader of the youth wing of the s.p.d. who was lobbying very hard against joining another coalition now the s.p.d. had its worst ever result in the september election and we've seen its popularity ratings decline since then do you think that being in another grand coalition with chancellor because conservatives is really going to allow the party to claw back support. yes and no i would say so on one hand i would say it's good for the s.p.d. that they are now finally settled the coalition deal and they're now going to be in government and there's not going to be another referendum or anything else or even new elections so this is good for them so they can call him down now in the long run we will have to see how they are able to translate their are promises into actual policies so if we look at the coalition agreement the s.p.d. was actually very successful. in the coalition to go sheesh and s

it is interesting we have been expecting it to be much closer because the head of the youth wing kevin kuhn a twenty eight year old as we just saw in the one in the in the report he's very very eloquent very dynamic a real new face in the policy and huge resource for the policy and it looked as though he was going to have a huge influence and make that vote much closer but i think what happened was that many members of the of the social democrats they looked at the old turn as if they fell to a vote this coalition down this could easily lead to us not the election and we could be obliterated quite literally they've looked at what's happened to the social democrats in recent times in in the netherlands and friends and so on and they don't want that to happen to their own policy so they became very very cautious especially because just a couple of days ago there was an opinion poll that showed the far right alternative to germany scoring higher than the social democrats who are after all the oldest politician of two hundred fifty years old but they were overtaken by the populist far right sud

it is interesting we have been expecting it to be much closer because the head of the youth wing kevin kuhn a twenty eight year old of we just saw him in one a in the in the report he's very very eloquent very dynamic a real new face in the policy and huge resource for the policy and it looked as though he was going to have a huge influence and make that vote much closer but i think what happened was that many members of the of the social democrats they looked at the old turn as if they thought who we vote this coalition down this could easily lead to a snap election and we could be obliterated quite literally they've looked at what's happened to the social democrats in recent times in in the netherlands and friends and so on but they don't want that's happened to their own policy so they became very very cautious especially because just a couple of days ago there was an opinion poll that showed the far right alternative to germany scoring higher than the social democrats who are after all the oldest politician of one hundred fifty years old but they were overtaken by the populist far right