steven meisner is a political analyst joined me though. we just want to get you on the line. appreciate you. coming on, steven. it is very complicated to the uninitiated, the german political system in the forming of the various combinations of coalition that all seem to be up in the air at the moment. what do you think it's the most likely outcome as it stands? that's pretty much a talk to the coin by the looks of it at the moment. whether it's s p d or a c, d u, conservative lead government. nobody can say right now. i would take a guess at the shoulds and the s p d are going to lead a new coalition, a 3 year coalition. the interesting thing of the course is that the, the big coalitions of the past are of have, are now impossible, even that basically to them together might only barely make up to 50 as it looks like. so we're looking at a 3 year constellation now for a stable government. now i'm sure this is absolutely normal way of life for you and it comes to polling in germany. but the people from other countries might seem a little strange that the party that gets the mos

and steven meisner, i put his car on list, it feels very good for the social democrats to be in a position like this when they have the lead for the very 1st time, since 2002. on the other hand, it might lead to a few months until we finally know who's going to be the winner. and it can even be that the social democrats don't really offer enough to that junior partners. it's most likely that they need to because i don't think that the spirit and the grand correlation between the social democrats and the question that credit union would allow swap of places that the social democrats will take. the chancellor re and the christian democratic union only the vice chancellor. the tv was in such a bad condition after makeover that i don't really see this happening. so there will be something like a free party coalition. and that can take a long time until they agree on what is done nailed down in a coalition treaty, c, d. u has never had any elect results anywhere close as bad as they have tonight. lasha doesn't for the next government, i think the knives are going to come out in the c d, u. and