represented blue collar workers but with those kinds of jobs dwindling and european societies diversifying the socialists and democrats as they call themselves in the european parliament are trying to figure out how they can sit in to this shifting political landscape now they emerge from the elections as the 2nd largest bloc with $153.00 seats that s around $31.00 fewer seats than before and most of the losses came in germany and in italy the social democratic vote did hold up in denmark spain and also in the netherlands in recent elections but still the losses overwhelm the games leaving social democrats wondering where to go from here. the social democrats used to be the people s party now that the crisis party its demise appears to be unstoppable with one catastrophe hot on the heels of the other last weeks or another party member step down this time and their knowledge is he resigned from her post as head of the s.p.d. they are going to start i ve just taken my leave from the s.p.
voters in europe there is a glimpse of hope if you look at portugal or spain for example in portugal since 2015 day it has been a government led by the social democrats that don t have enough sort of majority of it have been quite successful in ruling adik country and actually the spanish democratic social democratic party fed me they were at the last elections in april and they would be m.p. s that would bring the biggest national contingent into the european parliament all right our political reporter in manila shows with us here in our studio talking about social democrats across europe thank you so much for your analysis. now to sports and some of the favorites at the women s world cup have stuttered some have stumbled over the 1st 3 days but they 4 of the tournament gives fans a 1st look at the most dominant force of the last 2 decades the team from the u.s. the americans are defending champions and acutely aware that 2100 could be their