00:00So let's continue with us. And I have been speaking to Sevim Dadelin, who is a former German MP.
00:07I've been asking her what these state election results actually could mean for this plan to reform the economy.
00:15He has become the face of Germany's worsening economic and social crisis.
00:22And people no longer believe he can solve their problems.
00:27On top of that, he is seen as a warmonger, as someone who is pushing Germany and Europe towards a
00:36giant war with Russia.
00:38And he intends to remain as a chancellor and he intends to continue with his so-called reforms.
00:48But his so-called reforms, they are very unpopular.
00:51He is gambling at the moment with the social welfare state, the model we do have since ages in Germany,
00:59because he wants to cut the pensions.
01:01He is cutting the money, the support of the states for parents, for example, because they say we have to
01:13do these reforms on the social aspect because we have to rearm.
01:17We want to be the biggest military in Europe, so even bigger than the nuclear power in Russia, for example.
01:28They want to spend for the next year 140 billion euro just for military expenditures.
01:35The cost of living is front and center for many German people.
01:40Do you think that is why there's growing support across the left wing and the right wing?
01:46We are witnessing a rupture, a political rupture.
01:51In Berlin, the left gained, in Saxony, Anhalt, and in Mecklenburg, Western Pomerania, the far-right party, AfD, gained.
01:59And the situation is becoming more and more dangerous for the chancellor and this so-called reform policy of him
02:06and his social democratic party,
02:08because they want to do far-reaching anti-social reforms to finance the gigantic NATO rearmament.
02:16And the other parties, like the far-right AfD, they say we do not want to pay any more billions
02:24of checks for the Ukraine.
02:26Nevertheless, Mertz seems ready to gamble everything.
02:30He wants Germany to play the role assigned to it by the United States inside a kind of NATO 3
02:39.0,
02:40and that puts Germany in serious danger.
02:42And to pay for NATO rearmament, Mertz is also willing to risk Germany as an industrial location.
02:49Our industry, the industrial industry, I mean, we are losing our industry because of the skyrocketing high energy prices since
02:58years.
02:58We are paying the highest energy prices of all industrial countries in the world.
03:06And that's because we cut the cheap energy from Russia.
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