to sacto this leadership issue. well this is a problem that many of germany's political parties have been dealing with in recent months not least of all the junior coalition partners of the c.d.u. the social democrats and so the c.d.u. has seen how the social democrats really have been torn apart by in a party politics and issues over personnel and they simply don't want that to become an issue in the c.d.u. so this is very much about the cds image and they want to at least appear to voters as a united party that is behind their leader and that the delegates actually believe in the party leader and of course that that is also likely to be the person as i say who will take the party in to the 2021 election says very much about image but at the same time a week party that is just disrupted by issues over personnel and leadership also means that that could lead to a shaky government as well of course the current government here in germany between the c.d.u. and the social democrats has never really gotten off. to a gre