chief political correspondent of melinda craig who's in from south beach on safari in bali for the heads of the c.d.u. c.s.u. are meeting to discuss the deal with us pretty well camilla and so is this german government a crisis result now or is it just switched to a different battleground. it has definitely switched to a different battleground starting with the chancellery right here and now as you said the heads of the c.d.u. and the c s you are meeting with the third coalition partner the social democrats and the social democrats said today they have a lot of questions about this deal and are by no means going to simply sign off on it automatically a couple of years ago during the major influx of refugees in two thousand and fifteen the s.p.d. actually opposed such centers as are now being proposed by the c.s.u. in the c.d.u. they didn't want want to closed transit centers at this time today we've heard some talk about whether these transit centers would really be closed or not and so on so some attempt to placate the s.p.d. on this point and we've heard a couple of s.p.d. leaders sayi

central question will he take his party out of the government if he himself steps doubt stay with us melinda craig as we look at the options of facing an ideal about bill if for say harper does take his bus and go home. flips medical's variances the party decided to pull out of the coalition. it would leave the chancellor without a majority in parliament here's what could happen next. medical c.d.u. and her coalition partner the social democrats and it could go it alone and continue to govern without a majority but i'm sure in the lengthy negotiations to form the current government medical already made it clear that this is not a route she would be keen to take. to avoid a minority government the c.d.u. and the social democrats could look for a new coalition partner this could really only be the environmentalists greens. of the business friendly free democrats it's unlikely that machall would be able to remain chancellor in this scenario. if the bavarian conservatives were out of the coalition that would technically be a majority in parliament against machall if all the parties in the bundestag go