i think this is the real deadline there so the talks could go on for another week and everybody knows there are no alternatives so it's not really a deadline talks continue but if these talks at some point do collapse there's a number of things that could happen let's take a look if the coalition talks between germany's union f.t.p. and green parties fail president stan maya will have to step in the german president would nominate merkel as chancellor sent her party the c.d.u. c.s.u. has the most parliamentary members parliamentarians with an vote on merkel as chancellor the president has two choices he either makes merkel the head of a minority government in which she has to continually look for new majorities. or he dissolves the german parliament thanks calls for new elections in two months . fresh elections