sure there was a huge sigh of relief here actually amongst all of the conservative politicians we've heard that many of them congratulated the social democrats on their willingness to at least try to form a government and chancellor merkel has not been very outspoken in the process of finding a new government she has not been giving many press statements but she was actually very quick to react let's listen and. the seaview following the conclusion of exploratory talks last week which cleared the way for formal coalition talks we welcome the news that the social democrats have followed suit at their party conference today. after intensive and sometimes controversial discussions they reached a positive result that means the way is now clear for formal coalition talks. what's important to us in these talks is that germany gets a stable government that is able to tackle the questions and issues of the future