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Hello, you're listening to the Views Room, brought to you by Reuters Breaking Views.

I'm Jennifer Sabah. I'm joined by my colleague today, Anna Schumansky. Hi, Anna. Hello. And in this edition, we will discuss Germany's wobbly

government, and we will have Liam Proud, who will dial in from London, to take us through

the ramifications of that. And then later in the program, our Hong Kong Bureau will walk you through

one of the

biggest bank scandals to hit Australia. But first, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's government

is hanging by a thread. Liam, can you explain what happened over the weekend?

So as our listeners might or might not know, the German government is a slightly unusual coalition

between the two main parties. It's the conservative Christian Democrats, which is Angela Merkel's

party, and the social democrats called the SPD, who are kind of centre-left. It's almost the

equivalent of the Democrats and Republicans being in coalition together, or Britain's Labour and Conservative Party is the two traditionally largest parties.

Now, the SPD, which is the centre-left party, has been without a leader since roughly the spring, and they have recently elected a leader who is not the person that

everybody expected it would be. Everyone expected it would be finance minister Olaf Schultz.

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