he created the epa. he had price controls, et cetera, it goes on and on. doesn t that say something about the country more than the republican party. it is not really the country, but washington. washington moved the political spectrum so far to the right that we have lost track of all of this. actually, i think the polarization is asymmetric. i think the republican party moved very substantially to the right. democrats have always been a kind of center left party. a little bit aftof a mishmash party. that s what they have been. there s always been a big center. some of the old southern segregation, which i think it is good for the party. but you have democrats where they were but republicans going off to one side. and that s making for a very strange debate in washington. right. we ve got to go unfortunately. but i i don t think it got polarized. i think the republicans got
two hundred seventy nine zero and one abstention with that the s.p.d. will enter into coalition talks thad in the end the social democrats top brass had the majority they needed to start coalition talks with on the americans conservatives. earlier party leader martin short made an emotional appeal to delegates stressing the role of the center left party could play in strengthening europe. you know you couldn t feel it do you do it we can improve many things in germany and we have a great opportunity to rebuild europe and thus bring about more social justice not just in our country but across the continent. and in few of the last decade and a half i want to tell you this very clearly in my view it would be negligent not to seize this opportunity not even. thank the leader of the party s youth wing