a test for germany's public broadcaster a.r.d. now posters asked german voters how they would view another grand coalition that's a coalition between the biggest political groups in germany and in fact only a minority forty six percent say their view of it is very good or good a slim majority fifty two percent are less positive or even say it would be a bad thing let's bring in our political correspondent simon young for more on the story hi simon so our grand coalition here doesn't seem to be very popular at the moment what does that say about stability. well if this coalition is launched it will have a good working majority in the bundestag three hundred ninety nine of seven hundred nine seats so it will be able to push through eight states programme of measures that have been agreed in the coalition agreement pushing forward policy on the uniting europe over forming in the education system and improving the digital infrastructure in germany and many other things is that as to stability you know