conservatives and the center left social democrats lost a lot of support at the last election so they're both looking to score victories some in the conservatives lurching to the right some in the social democrats are looking to the left chancellor merkel has her work cut out to make sure that those centrifugal forces don't pull her coalition and it was really interesting to hear the rhetoric in fact during the press conferences when we heard these three party leaders speaking they definitely seemed to at least attempt to address that the bleeding support that we saw in the election we saw it especially hard talking about addressing the needs of ordinary people of ordinary germans that that's what this coalition would really be about can they do it based on this plan well there is actually a very fortunate position germany is running a huge budgets plus lots of taxation money coming in they have forty six billion euros to play with over the next four years in the throwing