A leadership crisis and confronted with the specter of its nazi past americans had to pick successor and a great crowd karrenbauer has stepped down after her c. D. U. Members defied orders and voted with the far right in the german state up to run the us my guest is a c. D. U. Parliamentarian who serves on the Foreign Affairs committee can his party find its soul and its backbone as europe and the world looks to germany to only. Moderate hes about to welcome. How could an election in tauranga one of the smallest german states bring down the hand selected successor to Angela Merkel on a graph tramcar are you that weak as a party well i dont think so but we have underestimated or the ramifications of touring year or so that we have to recognize that the Christian Democratic Union has lost the elections in this country some months ago and we have not taken serious consequences so this was the 1st mistake inside the party of touring europe the 2nd mistake was that we have underestimated th