On the evening of a federal election, the leaders of the parties meet on television. The program is known as the Elefantenrunde, the round of elephants. On 18 September 2005, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder used it to attack the moderators and his challenger. He told the moderators: Ihr intellektuelles Problem in allen Ehren. With all due respect to your intellectual problem. He asked whether anyone seriously believed that his party would accept an offer of talks from Angela Merkel in this situation, in dem sie sagt, sie möchte Bundeskanzlerin werden, in which she says she wants to be chancellor. Schröder later judged his own performance: War nicht gut, ich weiß. It wasn’t good, I know. On 22 November 2005, Angela Merkel was elected chancellor at the head of a coalition of her CDU/CSU and Schröder’s SPD.