conservatives it has emerged as the number one party in the nation if elections were held on sunday this would be the outcome the greens would come in 1st with 26 percent. of conservative c.d.u. c.s.u. bloc for with to 2nd place the 25 percent and coming in the right wing populist if tea at 13 percent another jolt america schoolish and bought knows the center left social democrats dropped to 4th place with only 12 percent the market friendly f.t.p. would get 8 percent and the fall lift left body 7 percent. so what do those results mean a senior political correspondent hans brandt is with me welcome hans surprising obvious results so we used to thinking off the green party at one point as a fringe as a nice body but now it s number one in the polls it has for a long time been a single issue party environmental issues that s the basis on which it was founded as the name indicates what s really to surprising about this is it coming in in 1st
her election as chancellor was closer than expected merkel s coalition of conservatives and social democrats actually has a clear majority but her margin of victory was only nine votes. if i ask you do you accept the result yes mr president i do. the conservative c.d.u. c.s.u. bloc has now begun its third grand coalition with the social democrats who had long struggle to saying yes to this coalition but in the end the junior partners offered . chancellor remains the chancellor and that s cause for happiness and relief i think this is good news for the citizens of our country and good news for europe. really for some in spite of a close election result the months of tough negotiations to form a new government are over the far right left the opposition in voicing criticism as
her election as chancellor was closer than expected merkel s coalition of conservatives and social democrats actually has a clear majority but her margin of victory was only nine votes. it fargas i ask you do you accept the result yes mr president i do. the conservative c.d.u. c.s.u. bloc has now begun its third grand coalition with the social democrats who had long struggle to saying yes to this coalition but in the end the junior partners offered . british chancellor remains the chancellor and that s cause for happiness and relief i think this is good news for the citizens of our country and good news for europe. really for some in spite of a close election result the months of tough negotiations to form a new government are over the far right left the opposition in voicing criticism as this means that to lose their party s struggles to join forces in order to somehow
a government back on track the leader of the bavarian conservatives force to see how far has visited the president today. but the focus is turning away from the parties involved in the failed coalition negotiations the social democrats have ruled out entering into another grand coalition with chancellor merkel s conservatives but now some members of the party are advocating a different approach. the conservative c.d.u. c.s.u. bloc working together with the social democrats and the federal government will the only team also form the new one there s already support for a new edition of the grand coalition the conservatives want to stay in power. you know what we need a partner who at the moment still refuses to go along the s.p.d. needs to quit pouting so far s.p.d. party leaders have shown no interest in governing on election night they ruled out joining a grand coalition something they reiterated after the collapse of the recent coalition
that that. difficult situation but we have two parties or three parties the c.d.u. c.s.u. and the liberals fifty feet who say yes we want to control immigration we don t want that the present refugees in germany will be able to have their families coming to germany as well to reunite them and sort of the green party who says yes we do want refugees here in germany can also have their families coming to germany and of course there s a big problem within the question how can we form this coalition and this is one of the most important questions for green party followers because they say no we cannot give up they gave up into other fields the greens they gave up the idea that we have to get out immediately from. you stop selling all in haifa s no one costs we have to go electric as quickly as possible. after. all burning