joining with merkel in government simon also in that newspaper that you held that there was an opinion poll that was released today that showed that germany s far right party the alternative for germany now apparently has more voter support than the social democrats how significant is this poll was pretty shocking stuff i mean don t forget the a.f.d. this anti immigrant party has only just got into parliament for the first time there are some doubts being raised about this poll the head of the polling company is described as having close links to the but nonetheless it s part of the trend of the polling institutes to say the far right is only advance and we re seeing that as the months go by. these political correspondent simon young thank you simon. all right it s time to head down to the berlin international film festival we have a we have usenet my ass waiter and david leavitt standing by for us hi both of you
germany s oldest poteen and it s this kind of opposition that in the end could still prevention many from having a stable government anytime soon. let s bring in a did of these political correspondent simon young hi simon this is essentially the final make or break moment to form a new government for germany what happens if members vote against our working with merkel s conservative. or worse in that case i think they re the most likely thing is that fresh elections would be held that might take a few months to set up but i do tend to think that most s.p.d. members will in fact in the end come down in favor of a new grand coalition with angela merkel s party they may not be keen on it but after the chaos of recent days you know they may just saw aides that they prefer that there s even less athletes light for new elections and all the uncertainty that that would bring for the s.p.d.