It's about a series of incidents that give rise to the impression that we have enabled grey zones and that we have crossed red lines.

Germany needs a new beginning. We want a new start and this is only possible with black-yellow.

A grand coalition would be disastrous for Germany.

We campaign for the 600,000 young people who are unemployed. We campaign for the 150,000 Germans who have left our country in the past year because they could not find work here. We campaign for the six million people without jobs.

We hope that as the evening wears on, we will have enough to govern with the Christian Democratic Union ... if not we will remain in the opposition.

I rule out categorically any 'traffic-light' coalition with red and green.