a new trend per se we see this happening now for a few years so what are social democratic parties doing to fix the problem and why doesn t it seem to be working in many countries like germany for example that if you think to many there s definitely a lot of soul searching going on at the moment so for the social democrats to find a new leader they re trying to veer to kountry the party so it towards left leaning policies once again to regained core electorate that they have lost but it s a bit to no avail because those elected this electorate has already been one over by populism by both this parties and by degrees which have fed the latest poll i think was last week was the green fairing at 27 percent of the voters in. pensions and that s as much as the conservatives and indeed mean time to social democrats hit a historical. intention so what are the hopes then for the social democrats to regain
chancellor because there is no one there and because the s.p.d. is not in a condition where it can win elections and then former leader government and few. months it was very blunt to set the course for the social democrat success today the party looks like a disoriented conflict as and one out version of the proud people s party it once used to be. let s bring in our political correspondent who s been looking into the story for us give us an idea of why voters are turning away from social democratic parties across europe what is happening here of us a clear loss of confidence of the voters parties including the social democrats 1st this loss of confidence. the politicians themselves as if themselves as it s clear to decay in fresh. as for example where a social democracy was in power was hostile and then which dramatically collapsed afterwards and the 2nd point is that for