a deal with chancellor angela merkel s conservatives to form another groundcover ration senior s.p. two members say that they will back as nomination of knowledges as leader. so what does this mean for the party what does this mean for the country let s bring in political correspondent thomas sparrow who is standing by outside of s.p.d. headquarters here in berlin welcome to you thomas so now under a analysis we ve just heard is expected to be elected as party leader in april but what happens in the meantime thomas because this is a really critical moment for the party as it gets ready to vote on a new coalition deal which is very critical for germany well in the meantime the party will be led on an interim basis by all off shows one of the s.p.d. deputies in the current mayor of. this decision was taken today here at the s.p.d. headquarters in order to appease some of the internal criticism by s.p.d.