a half years now or might she actually exit earlier i think it's very unlikely that we'll see. them plan and we saw from the interview last night she's very determined to remain in the chancellery until two thousand and twenty one and we've seen merkel survive this pressure before on countless occasions particularly since september's election if you think the party got its worst election result in post-war history and she came under pressure again when those exploratory coalition hawks in the green party and the party business s.t.p. those fell through in november and she's still here and of course that question is still there in the c.d.u. which has been keeping them busy for quite some years now. who is going to replace cole and that's going to be a question that really going to have to address in the next few years and so with still in the chance larry to use that time to find a successor as well ok there's some just a question out there there's