reelection as a chat person up to see the union even though i have been chair of the c.d.u. in germany for over eighteen years now my party can now prepare itself for the time off to mean. anything that does and i see this is an opportunity in which the party can look within and reflects the fact it s a great development this is something we haven t had an eighteen year and this. also coming up tonight a dark warning from northern ireland over the consequences of a no deal. just back that up take. it away from us and then. every calorie. counts. we begin the day approaching the finish line of the miracle marathon it has been eighteen years since uncle americal became head of germany s conservative c.d.u.
just last week i had both the french and polish diplomat tell me that as far as they re concerned they re essentially not getting any response out of berlin on key concerns and issues so clearly this was a bet on the part of the chancellor she said as much yesterday that by doing this she can free up the government to continue to start concentrating once again on the actual business of governing and i have to say tributes poured in over the last twenty four hours from european it international leaders who clearly assume that they are still going to be interacting with uncle americal for some time to come so she s very experienced she has a lot of influence and a lot of good connections on the world stage and i don t think we can write her off as a lame duck yet we get write her off as a lame duck. but she wants to stay in office another three years and that s an eternity in politics will she be able to do their. absolutely depends on who her
reelection as chad person of the cd uni even there have been chair of the c.d.u. in germany for over eighteen years now my party can now prepare itself for the time off to mean. for them from the dozen i see this is an opportunity in which the party can look within the reflects i think it s a great development something we haven t had an over eighteen years and he s. also coming up tonight a dark warning from northern ireland over the consequences of a no deal. great to be back that. you tipped out away from us and then. every calorie. counts. we begin the day approaching the finish line of the miracle marathon it has been eighteen years since uncle americal became head of germany s conservative c.d.u.
controversial for her decision in the twenty fifteen to admit hundreds of thousands of refugees that it has provoked ceaseless internal party strife particularly with the cd use of area in a sister party the c s u and that strife has simply drowned out other topics other achievements to the point that many germans are thoroughly sick of the bickering and we ve seen voters both in bavaria and in hessen saying sending a message saying we want this to stop one of the conservative sorry one of the government how does it affect the government of germany well in many respects in a similar way the government is also riven with divisions it is perceived as extremely self absorbed and here too the idea is that uncle americal removes herself and her controversial decision back in two thousand and fifteen from the
office soon as possible and both seem to indicate that the refugee crisis the migration crisis is near not top of the agenda for most people going to vote but be that as it may it was clear that anglo american was facing deep discount content within a section of our own body we remember that she was trying to get one of her preferred candidates elected to a post and she tossed that. bring house the will was elected to replace folk out of of one. i m going to trust aides and he was the chief whip in the party he was the person who within the party structure was guaranteed that anglo-american would have the majorities for the policies that she wanted to pursue and that had been a long arrangement that i m going to was very comfortable with and then suddenly out since the blue a new name came came up wrote brink house and and won the votes against. and that was viewed as very significant a real slap in the face for uncle americal and certainly