Do they have such a low profile we have our snoop around to catch a glimpse talking to the distributors of this starts june 10th w. This is day 8 of the news live from berlin merkel insists how government will press on the german chancellor says shes not planning any changes to the countrys Governing Coalition this out to the surprise resignation of the leader of the Social Democrats a move that promised a coalition can into crisis. Im
rebecca read his welcome to the Program German chancellor Angela Merkel got its get Markovic Governing Coalition took another bating today the later of its Junior Partner the Social Democrats and else to resignation even the future of both the party and germanys government in doubt Social Democrats and merkels conservatives were once the countrys 2 biggest parties lightly as they were plunging in Opinion Polls but mogul has promised to keep on with the task of governing. After a year in the top job at the s. P. D. Andrea now this says shes standing down
certainly is and it wasn t so long ago we were sat here for what felt like months but it was just a number of weeks in which this government found itself in the middle of a near crisis last summer it was brought to the brink of collapse over that migration. question between that and that was a large issue to large debate between actually within the conservatives between the interior ministry minister story and the german chancellor and of course these issues seem to keep popping up time and time again which is why the credibility of this coalition keeps being brought into question well under analysis was the 1st female leader of the german social democrats and before we talk more about her decision to resign let s take a quick look back at her career. it was the high point of her career in april 20000 and to be anonymous became the head of the social democrats for the 1st time in the party s long history a woman who was at the helm as the unschooling in the we re going to make it
a reputation for being outspoken after her rousing speech at an s.p.d. convention party members agree to change course and form a coalition with angela merkel s conservatives rather than enter the opposition. hands on i think we re going to negotiate and get some more good results that s why voting yes today is worth it. now as was the party s 1st female leader since it was founded more than 150 years ago she was tasked with steering the s.p.d. back to its left wing roots but many are now asking if the decision to again partner with the center right c.d.u. was indeed worth it. no kate and then all those informed her party members of her decision to step down in writing what s been the reaction among party members they seem a real mixed reaction it is interesting that there were just there was a statement just yesterday from some leading figures in the social democrats actually that said you know we are the party of solidarity reaffirming that