rank and file that is likely to happen if they vote no germany and europe could be in for a rough ride senior political editor michelle a coup for her has more. a tense calm hangs over berlin's government district. germany is waiting to learn whether the social democrat party base will agree to another ground coalition with anglo-american in the chancellor. if b.s.p. dean says yes this weekend could simply pass without any grave consequences to germany's political set up but if it says no this has the potential to send the country into political freefall and along with it german chancellor angela merkel. macko has certainly done her bit to avoid that outcome she convinced her c.d.u. party to back the coalition despite the feeling that she gave away too many key ministries to save for a second attempt at forming a government. and you. can be a liberal we all fought hard and we're all disappointed and yes i too feel the pain of losing the finance ministry. that disappointment has dented mackerels authority as party leader mended for now by allowing in a party critics more of a say yet ge

a signal but looking ahead as you mentioned the s.p.d. even officially presenting its lineup of cabinet ministers tomorrow meanwhile there are more and more names being leaked out as to who will be in the next cabinet tell us any interesting names that we should look out for. exactly so there will be quite a few faces and names when you might recognize already as catarina body she's currently the women's family and youth minister and she's expected to perhaps take over the leyva ministry post then there's also thomas open man he's expected to perhaps until then hike on march issues in the justice ministry and he's also the former poly mentary group leader for the s.p.d. another name that's come out today is franziska gifty and she is currently the mare of the noise coal district of lynn and so then that would also go to her presence there would increase alongside catarina body the representation of women in the ministerial positions and she's also from former east germany and that was also an issue when the ministerial posts from the c.d.

out of kratos learns about just doesn't think it doesn't all made by the rank and file of the s.p.d. which is my response yes they. wouldn't believe this and it lays a good groundwork for governing the country together it would be fifty thousand i just heard important that we get down to business in a few days time because without coalition agreement we have set ourselves this is a challenging program the things we want to implement focusing on improving the lives of people in germany who are right to expect massive have a government able to act in six months after the elections nearly they are quite right to want to see us implement what you have planned and for every minister to be furious will be challenging time there are a great deal of projects like that with preserving jobs in the country and moving forward and we want to ensure that we maintain those every prosperity that we have but we also want to ensure that life peoples' lives in journalling and proved and based on what we hear every day participating to people we know that europe is crucial and germany must have a strong

and file members of the s.p.d. . these yes i know who are the behind and this is a higher percentage than we had four years ago british the valid votes cast. i know five hundred and sixty one votes that were found to be invalidated up to give an inch to mn. as a result of the valid meet vote cast votes in favor of working on the two hundred victims and their deaths you nine thousand six hundred and four votes of those against one hundred twenty three thousand three hundred and twenty nine dollars of the s.p.d. are not suitable for which means sixty six point zero two percent of vote cast went very very patient and almost thirty three point nine eight percent of the vote this cast were against you and miss having to the honor to represent this force its in the result to you is means my job's done and i'm now past the floor mind that actually i'm using head yesterday doing the members of the as he did not have approved dealey plaza is put forward by the s.p.d. leadership so now you have clarity that the s.p.d. will ind

now it was time for the rank and file at least in the s.p.d. to have their say without their support there would be no grand coalition the dortmund contingent was disappointed by the results of the talks some were afraid the alternative for germany would profit. i think our biggest responsibility is to go into the opposition and not give these people any ground let's go. on the eve of another special party convention this time in bonn all the delegates were taking up positions. shorts try to stay at the helm as best he could. because he also as you can imagine tomorrow's party conference will determine our direction people feel great. need for discussion. this is. why no you can really feel the tension i think both sides know that this decision will have far reaching consequences for the s.p.d. and for this it can go either way there's no magic formula to satisfy everyone in the company space. and to. the center of the maelstrom was martin charlotte's few people knew he was feeling ill. in mind and i'll get my ice it would be irresponsible not

membership ballot was announced sunday with two thirds of the party's rank and file ultimately backing the leadership bid for another grand coalition the result of michael is now set to be reelected in office when the german parliament bonus talk meets next wednesday. w.'s chief political editor mckayla cook joins us now for some analysis good morning mikaela this is a bit of a watershed moment it must be said a lot finally falling into place with the formation of a new government what's happening today here is it appears that demi is somewhat gone full circle and we'll see a continuation of the current of course so-called grand coalition of the sister democrats and the c.d.u. we're expecting to a chance to undemocratic the statement today at ten am and we also expect a conservative end of her conservative coalition the c.s.u. in bavaria to tell us who they want to send in to a future cabinet and on the back of this must be a real collective sigh of relief for germany even for german voters after months of not knowing what's going to happen in terms of their government well actually we

and she said he's going as well as he's been she's a young woman's an important signals have towards s.p.d. members that the leadership is taking seriously that they want to take this rejuvenating process that many people in the rank and file of us feel that they're taking this seriously ok one of the big stories today we're looking at a trade war looming between the united states and its trading partners including the european union donald trump there singling out germany as one of the violators as he calls them conducting the assault on the united states. has been named by the s.p.d. just moments ago as the country's new foreign minister he's going to be the point man for dealing with the u.s. who is he is he up to the task. has zero experience when it comes to foreign policy we have to. we have to just look at that he just doesn't bring experience with him then again the foreign office in germany is very well organized and has extremely competent. members of staff and he he has a good team which will certainly help but of course there are some critics sayings that my god. has managed to

the past few months or years but they have seen that there is a very very strong desire within the rank and file that there is that there are signs that the party leadership doesn't stick to their positions and that they're willing to rejuvenating and help reshape the s.p.d. profile ok it's very unusual though isn't it for a foreign minister to then go back to being a simple if you call that member of parliament exactly but many people just felt that gabriele had taken it a bit too far and that he. is the designated new leader of the party the first woman in that office if she's elected and they proceed said quite clearly we need team players in the new cabinet and many people just didn't feel as a team player anymore ok the foreign minister in germany sets the tone for so many things especially for friends partners and adversaries abroad as well. as the man who looks set to to get that room who is i call most interestingly he was brought into the cabinet by my god. my god will support that hike a must when he was a pretty unsuccessful regional politician in a small region in germany an