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ukraine and the baltic states. it symbolised by the new gas pipeline which allows putin to pump his into europe and ukraine. we ve also seen how the greens came back, that was very interesting. i was also very struck by the spd were in the doldrums at the start and were nowhere. it does show again the volatility of european politics. here is a party that was really going nowhere and the cd you were way ahead. i party party picked the wrong person, they collapse to loss of 1.3 million voters with a particularly a lot of older voters. the s particularly a lot of older voters. the 5 pd particularly a lot of older voters. the s pd came back and also we ve seen the two main parties go under 50% of the first time. again that fracturing of politics we are seeing in all the countries. the intriguing difference for germany is that the populace are not on the edges. so the hard left and hard right bolted
the ballots of every body else but as soon as you decide that there should be like a. secret and. so on and so on you cannot be sure thus the computer count the votes riot is the result the correct result and you have no way to control it i mean you are kind of a specialist in this and what do you know that the leaders in the s.p. did don t know i mean should they be concerned about this this is not this is not capitalistic secret knowledge i have this is like when you were studying maybe informatics or you read some articles about online voting you know that the way the us that is doing this online voting now is the way you should never do it if you got no reaction from the s.p.d. because you were also a member of the s.p.d. and you ve left the party i mean do you think that there is programming itself or
the governing c.d.u. c.s.u. that s on 27 percent return coalition partner the s.p.d. said 14 percent now above them is the far right a f d with 15 percent the business friendly f.t.p. it s at 7 as is the left party also some of the greens are on 23 percent now that s down 3 points compared to last month the greens have been continuing to lose ground every month recently has their popularity when you look at their percentages down 3 percent from august have they topped out with the electorate. i think you could say that there is some sort of peak that has been reached there but at the same time you have to say that the rise of the greens in recent months has been absolutely spectacular so much so that the green party themselves are scrambling to find enough personnel to find enough people to actually respond to that they have had
rely on for a livelihood in brandenburg the s.p.d. has also been in power since reunification it s currently in coalition with the left party but surveys suggest that it s unlikely that the 2 parties can continue to govern together for my work flat out for 161820 hours a day so that the far right populist don t become the most powerful party here just like the coffee the s.p.d. and the a.f.d. are neck and neck in brandenburg but the far right populists are unlikely to take power none of the other parties wants to join a coalition with them for years the a.f.d. has benefited from feelings of insecurity and of being neglected in the east it has taken on the slogans of the civil rights movement in former communist east germany berlin grand coalition partners the c.d.u. and the s.p.d. especially are looking to the state elections with apprehension. the s.p.d. is suffering from dwindling support and membership. and the c.d.u.