A trip by airplane. Seventeen thousand kilometers in six weeks. Landscapes. Her experience a. Touching story. Oh this is our home was gods country a perfectly good place for me another better place seventy thousand kilometers through cameco starting february twenty seventh. Jevon tonight is urging his fellow social democrats to vote no to forming a grand coalition with chancellor Angela Merkels conservative c. D. U. Who hunts for a very insistent party the c. S. U. Right now tonights may well be the charm for most most powerful opponents merkel is in favor of a review jco. Lower in the polls than ever germany and all of europe are asking will to nuts Opposition Campaign succeed. Whatsoever and. Everybody in here yeah i know my. Parents didnt. Yell at the beginning of another lot of day to not pauses to collect his thoughts. Later hell hit the road to try to convince more s. P. D. Members to vote against the grand coalition. To not just traveling throughout germany today hes in the town of bishops time to frankfurt. Lots of s. P. D. Members want to have their say and theres a big crowd here today. It was tonight the leader of the partys Youth Organization who launched the debate. About. Our election manifestos no longer sound like s. P. D. Principles but a compromise tell it to a grand coalition we know we have few options if we want to get into government we can only do it with the conservatives. And. That is why we limit ourselves in developing new ideas. It is clear that weve given up and are not willing to come up with Real Solutions to Current Issues and thats. What we have reduced our thinking to suit the grand coalition. With. The s. P. D. Was part of a grand coalition from twenty thirteen to twenty seventeen the party had to make concessions then to live in last autumn selections the s. P. D. Took only twenty point five percent of the vote its worst result in postwar history many Party Members demand renewal but can that even happen in a gram. Coalition. Is where they make promises but we dont keep them. Will cave in just like we did in the last coalition. But based on my experience we cant get much done if were an opposition party. Right from the start i was opposed to another coalition but now ive noticed that local Party Members tend to favor it they say the Coalition Plan on contains a lot of policies that are important to the social democrats. Might find it hard to counter those arguments. Either. In north rhinewestphalia weve had a cd liberal coalition for a year now they did things that leave them open to criticism by the s. P. D. Like abolishing public transport discounts for people on welfare. But the s. P. D. That actually fell three points in the polls despite the fact that they attacked numerous policies. Ten percent of the people who voted for the s. P. D. Their last time around it would not do so today so does being in opposition really accomplish anything. Twenty four thousand people have recently joined the s. P. D. Its not clear whether they really identify with the party just want to vote against a grand coalition. Ive been asked by the member for six weeks now. Thank. You didnt vote as p. D. N. The last federal election and i wouldnt vote for them if they joined a grand coalition. Im here today to thank kevin and his organization for all their work. Thank heaven. Tonight is a twenty eight heroes Political Science student from berlin hes earned nationwide respect for standing up to the s. P. D. Leaders its like david versus goliath. For the cost of thanks for everything from those who are those who want a new party member youve got a lot of courage of that you know i really have my battles and i think youre on the right track. In those days. But what might happen if the s. P. D. Does vote against forming a coalition the parties popularity might drop even lower than some polls now show. Fifteen at least i know that people are worried about the sixteen percent but when i see that the s. P. D. Election results are falling from the mid thirtys to twenty point five percent since article americal took office thats a much bigger problem for me than opinion with the flag twenty percent figure represents what people think of our performance in the last Coalition Government sent in september lets listen to an up of the people can no longer identify the s. P. D. Profile within a grand coalition thats been in our courts and that at a time when we have seven parties in a border started in part time and. Could not heads for the railway station. His next stop is the town of overalls that a few kilometers away. I. Hear the s. P. D. Took a mere seventeen point five percent of the vote in the last federal election so Party Members are understandably quite nervous four hundred people are here today. They have to wait while their names are checked against the official membership list. Make up of intel is looking forward to the discussion even though hes already made up his mind hes in favor of the coalition. The issue is this the as it is just as far as im concerned its the only realistic option we have to go in what will happen if we vote against it first wouldst would know it and i think you could then just forget the s. P. D. For the next twenty years it didnt but i understand these things about the soldiers are up there and these people are here to debate the partys future but many also want to see kevin to not. Just give me their bottle of understating their theme id like to get to know him a little better i think you should also hes an outgoing dynamic and eloquent young man in oakland based on what ive seen so far. Does him to see if hes an interesting god. So ill follow the debate now and then decide how im going to vote. Up to move him. To give a choice kevin here to communicate. With Congress Today q. Notes will debate tossed in shape for good and bad s. P. D. Deputy chairman and a coalition supporter. If europe is to succeed it must do better this one over there are concerns that if we dont form this coalition we wont be able to push through much needed reforms he avoids many of our policies have been included in the Coalition Agreement so i believe that we can now form another grand coalition even though thats not what we wanted at the start of it for the party or to mr goodwin. A lot of the people here dont care about the Coalition Agreement they want to debate fundamental values and renewing the party. Cannot believe that if the s. P. D. Joins the coalition its profile would become even less clearly defined. That. Im against a coalition has come is that look its just one compromise after another isnt it weve fallen so far already and i hate to think where well be when the coalition comes to an end we might be glad to make the five percent to stay in parliament would send shock if the Party Members do vote no new National Elections are likely possibly in october the opinion polls make that a daunting prospect for many grassroots members but not. Why are more votes in our view we have no control over the possibility of new elections but a party thats afraid of new elections and calm presenting policies effectively might as well just give up the current because no one will vote for them anyway we have to be more confident of the of the things like that that will stop. The. Journalists werent allowed to film the debate. But during the meeting there was sharp criticism of the Party Leadership and its backroom decisions. And many s. P. D. Members want more of a say. Picked up on this. But its not clear whether hell succeed we saw one of us would of course said during the advance of the average age of s. P. D. Members. I think we can predict that the majority will take a conservative approach. And vote in favor of the coalition for through its own good. This has been the longest period its ever taken to form a new government in postwar germany and the rest of the world is watching even to journalists from china here to cover the debate the s. P. D. As allies in other European Countries are said to have called on the party to form a coalition. But kevin tonight is still against the idea that he has been the most notorious guy speedy must want other social democratic parties and europe to become stronger again see it in france the netherlands for example those parties have fallen to single digit levels of ice. And always after theyve been part of governments where policies had little to do with social democracy at least its not a if and thats a clear sign that after twelve years of under the merkel and eighteen years in Coalition Governments we should not pursue this part so. I dubbed that tonights last stop of the day the hollies pact the s. P. D. Is germanys Oldest Political Party right now it has four hundred sixty thousand members there have until march the second to cast their votes what will you not do if they say yes to a coalition commission for the use of guns i am the s. P. D. Youth organization will stay loyal to our party destiny but i believe that if yes first it will make it more difficult to renew the party in this night others disagree still we will do all we can to contribute to the renewal process and to demand our place in it. For them to know kevin kuhn earth has already revitalized debate amongst Party Members if they do vote no it could give the s. P. D. A boost all of the two a major disaster its a big gamble and the future of the party is at stake. With the fact that. There. Has many faces. The gap between the poorest in the. Wealthiest keeps growing. Countries saying inequality is dividing the world but in a Great Society our focus on. On disability. 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