German voters go to the polls on the 26th of September to choose a new Bundestag, the federal parliament in Berlin. The two current government partners – the CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democratic Party are almost in a dead-heat in the polls and the Greens are not far behind. Some of the latest polling actually indicates that the Social Democrats are slightly ahead of Angela’s Merkel party, who after sixteen years is stepping down as chancellor. In this episode I speak with Hardy Ostry, an expert on German and European Politics, about the state-of-play in the election campaign and Germany after Merkel.