interim party leader olaf schultz and parliamentary party leader has made a statement before vote counting gets underway later this afternoon. is that you know whatever happens the outcome will be a result that contributes to the espy's continued unity because there will be a lot of people who took part in it through their vote and there have been an unbelievable number of people who have joined in the discussion within the s.p.d. this really brings us together and i think you can already feel that. there's knowledge if there is a negative result tomorrow or we have a political crisis hopefully there will be no negative result and i don't speculate about that at all on such a nice sunny day we should only expect good news. out of this vote has pitted the social democrats old guard who are pushing for that grand coalition against its strong youth wing were adamant that working with merkel's conservatives is a big mistake for the party if as v.t. members block the coalition deal now merkel will have to go back to the drawing board or germans will end up back at the polls. at the social democ

think you know we're just talking about that with one of seeing these ministers right there is olaf schultz you know the new finance minister believes are right there yes there are. he's also the acting leader of the social democrats we should say a lot of questions being asked about how she might change the finance ministry do you foresee any changes there is. in the future justice minister. some people have told me he is still a german finance minister so not too much hope for southern european countries for example to to see loosening of budgetary discipline for example although he is from the social democrats. economics minister he was. out on story and chancellor merkel. will of course be the strong man in the cabinet as the finance minister and he made it very clear this monday that you both stick to a balanced budget by the way. legally but this was also a very important signal from him a lot of question a lot of people asking can we see any successors among the people this is an interesting figure just exiting the coffin psystar get fired from the social democrats thirty nine year o

new faces there there are quite a few new faces for these ministerial positions one of them is olaf schultz from the social democrats he is the format of hamburg and currently the interim leader of the s.p.d. and he's expected to be appointed as finance minister and vice chancellor we also heard from the c.s.u. today that's the bavarian sister party of merkel's conservatives and they are putting hosts a whole for the former leader of the c.s.u. as interior minister and one of the big questions hanging over those ministerial posts is who is going to be foreign minister now at the moment that signal gabriele from the social democrats but despite the huge respect that he's won for his work as german foreign minister he has made quite a few enemies in his own party particularly over the last few weeks and that was largely due to this rather messy leadership over in the party so that's a position that we should still keep an eye on with those tensions kate how stable do you think this government will be special so looking at how long it took to bring it together. i think the time it took for us