i mean you did it very successfully which is it appears that this was not the top priority for many voters in the european union who mentioned youth unemployment for example also climate change so why is that still your top priority if statistically it doesn't seem to be a problem anymore is obviously a problem because if you look to italy hungary. france great britain apologies to just top priority you won the elections of course you'd germany is obviously different but you know i come from six only and we also don't number one party there so in my mind it is the number one priority. and we try to convince people to focus on that priority and not to focus on. other priorities let's say climate change because we don't think that that is as urgent mycenaean come from the h.d. thank you very much for talking to us sumi back to you all right thank you very much max. now polls close are earlier in france one of the

key member states and marie le pen has once again proved to be a thorn in the side of the country's main stream party's national rally achieve just over twenty three percent of the vote that's ahead of president manuel mcconnell centrist party that won just under twenty two percent that then said the expected result quote confirms the new nationalist globalist division in france and beyond her party is now calling for the formation of a powerful populist group in the european parliament now the penetrance her supporters earlier let's listen to what she had to say. if you want me to argue this is a victory for the people we have taken back power tonight with pride and dignity that also really joyfully welcome this result tonight because never before has the national rally so deserved his name good to go whether it's a vote from the head or the heart rest assured that vote for a national rally was above all a vote for france and the people. let's bring in our correspondent lisa lewis in

paris she's been following my columns on march movement there today just outside of where they have been following the results there lisa you know we heard a very victorious sounding marine le pen there very confident is this really such a big victory for her and her party. well they did come first in these elections obviously they say this has been an immense victory and they've even appealed to president in manama call to dissolve the parliament as he had turned this very much in a standoff between pro europeans and euro skeptics and in a question about his authority however when you look at the results where at least at the estimates because throughout results we've come in a very short time you can see that there at the turnout the result of the national rally is actually supposed to be below the water they achieved five years ago so

it's very difficult to argue that this is huge victory for them and so that they could ask for the government to step down because of this so maybe not a huge victory for marine le pen but is this a big blow for the president tomorrow in my car and his movement. well of course they would have liked to come first but people here have been telling me that they're actually quite happy about the results they will have about twenty two percent probably called into the estimates and they're saying you know this is our first european election so that's actually not a bad result of tool and also it's the first midterm so to say and when you look back in history the socialists the last government there actually had a lot worse results in a midterm really elections there were about fifteen percent so. parties now saying this is quite a good result for us also they're saying people have turned out you know this has been a high voter turnout at about fish. one percent so this is

a yes to europe and europe is always a part of the d.n.a. as they say off their potty now the ellie's it today has been saying this is a confirmation of the robustness of our government and we will continue our reforms and maybe even beat them up all right our correspondent lisa lewis covering the vote for us there in paris thank you lisa. and polls close here in germany earlier this evening and the big news here is that the greens have made huge gains putting them ahead of the social democrats and the americans conservatives came out on top but it was an underwhelming result for them let's hear from the chairwoman of germany's green party annalyn about book she had to say after eclipsing the social democrats to finish second. you divide this election was a climate protection election this election was in the election for democracy.

demands a human right for a cosmopolitan near zero. i guess that's why the votes which are making us happy not just green. day of the climate protection act they are votes for democracy they are votes against populism they are votes to human rights in all of europe to a friend signed on for and there. are at let's talk about these results with our chief political editor michelle and kids now with us here in our studio. based on very happy there with the greens and for good reason this is a pretty remarkable result we're talking about just over twenty percent of the greens now if these results do are confirmed they would be the second biggest party in the country after this vote and there's also another really interesting figure that i think we have here that we can take a look at as well there are youth voters here and you can really see how greens how

they have now to you know really picked up the youth vote they showed that thirty five percent of all german voters under twenty four have voted green and as you can see michel of the older the voters get the less likely they are to vote for the green party how do you explain this this big movement. well i think the question is is this string of the green party or is that the week this particular of the social democrats who suffered yet another crushing defeat here and the other so-called big tent parties. of course first and foremost i'm going to michael see do you party and the figures that we saw of that is that they basically lost the use so the no longer big tent the young moving elsewhere and clearly that's something the greens are gaining from but also campaigned on a huge issue of climate change you have the whole fight its future movement i've just come from the headquarters of the conservative c.d.u. and when you talk to people there off camera they will admit yes this is an issue that they completely failed to really put to the forefront when really it was on

but you can young people's mind here minds here in germany not to mention or not to . in that youtube video that came out last week where a you tube basically called on young people not to vote for the established parties first but for the c.d.u. but then also for the social democrats and other established parties and of course the far right if the so that made their lives difficult the failure of the c.d.u. to really have an adequate response to that kind of attack from you tube also highlighted the simply not fresh young party that knows how to address young voters the greens know how to do it and they have the issue of climate change which is an easy one because if you're against climate protection you're kind of old school you're failing to recognize what the key issue is that young people's minds and where you said you were at the conservative party headquarters a little bit earlier in the evening taking a look at the results there and we the head of the party. was also speaking about

these results earlier and we have a clip of that let's listen to it these are this this election result is not the result that we as a party as the people expect of ourselves give a shit if the other we will meet next weekend and analyze the results but now tonight we can clearly say that there are several reasons that lead to these results. were is often so inviolate. for one yes certainly we have not been dynamic enough in government. and we have failed to give convincing. the voters across germany have rightly expected of us. so michelle that we heard and it got come they're saying ok we failed to deliver but it's not just this vote is that are we seeing a continuation of this splintering of the political center of the middle in germany

absolutely i mean it's a it's a for the fragmentation of the political landscape in germany but also in europe so one could say ok this is a europe wide trend of rival of the far right if tea party in the talk the parliament in twenty seventeen in this pasta.