pension age they ve introduced quotas for women on boards that was the gay marriage vote they didn t seem to get any credit for it and this is this is in some ways angela merkel s great achievement she s very good at appropriating social democratic achievements for herself you know you hear it said sometimes in berlin that germany has to social democratic parties and so you know if you are social democrat and you look and you think we ve been in government with angela merkel for eight of twelve years in total and it s been we ve received very little credit for it and i think especially if the party gets less than twenty three percent of the election on sunday which is its record low election results in two thousand and nine i think people will ask you know we re going to be a wreck by the end of this if we have another four years with maybe better go back into a position refresh regenerate think of think hard about germany s challenges maybe bring forward some new younger leaders and t