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
the s.p.d. after andrea analysis fought for her party to enter another governing coalition with the center right the s.p.d. suffered heavy losses in state elections now this is hope of reenergizing the party failed to win over voters now that her own party members have lost faith in her leadership now liz has thrown in the towel after 20 years. now huns under analysis was one of 3 leaders the esp a day has had only 2 years but is this crisis really about her or is this a crisis of the german social democrats in general. i think one has to say it s a little bit of both clearly the social democrats are deeply and crisis has been losing votes for years there s been a lot of infighting in the party for years. struggling to redefine their policies from the kind of traditional social democratic left wing positions which have been
parliamentary group nala says resignation follows the party s dismal performance in last month s european elections its worst ever showing at the polls here given city vivisect the results that we have so far are extremely disappointing for the s.p.d. everyone knows that the surveys regarding our party have not been good in the last . our task was to try and work our way out of these poor survey results sadly despite all our work we didn t manage to swing things around. during the initial. surprise. the s.p.d. was once a big tent party but the years of playing 2nd fiddle in chancellor angela merkel s government have left the social democrats struggling to stay relevant new polling puts the s.p.d. a just 12 percent a distant 3rd behind the greens and conservatives coalition has found it difficult to make headway since its painful formation after the 2017 german election merkel
and final term as chancellor and that would go until 2021 but of course they say resignation from andrea knowledges today has of course sent tremors through this coalition and has yet again brought into question the credibility of this government is it still stable enough to lead in the end was even stable enough in the first a place of course there were always concerns and criticism from both sides but particularly from the more left leaving wing of the social democrats that going into this government this governing coalition once again wouldn t give the social democrats the time and the space to redefine its profile but some that s also something which the conservative c.d.u. is also trying to do right now so radio have to say exactly how. and of course the 2 coalition parties actually intend on a continuing forward with this very fragile coalition now hands as we just heard merkel is very cane she wants to keep the government going wants to continue their