new roles. ok let s go back now live to the german bundestag i m joined by our chief political editor michelle or governor michelle of what to expect to happen where you are this morning can you walk us through what s going to proceed there. well the proceedings of just start of this just going through the list of those who are going to vote we have seven hundred nine m.p. s in the german and that means basically that there needs to be of authority of three hundred fifty five votes for german chancellor angela merkel to be voted into a fourth term in office there s a market difference to normal majorities it s actually the number of members that counts here so we firmly expect her to be reelected the so-called grand coalition of social democrats and german chancellor angela merkel s conservative c.d.u. c.s.u. union have forty four votes more than they would absolutely need we don t really