announcement that she will be stepping down as leader of the cd you bought well certainly was a surprise she s been wrapped up in in several scandals over her time in office as the c.d.u. party leader and then also shortly after that she was appointed the office of defense minister and so far we ve heard that she will be continuing to stay on as germany s defense minister but this was surprising it seems that many things had been sorted out over the weekend following the scandal in the eastern state of just to remind ourselves of course last week the state pregnant state premier in thuringia was elected there and that was done through cooperation between the conservative c.d.u. the per business d.p. and the far right a.f.d. so effectively the conservatives there actually overstepped party line they crossed party lines as the c.d.u. the conservative c.d.u. like of the parties in germany say we will know. work with the far right a.f.d. either directly or in directly but in the