we're becoming a major political force in this country this is the 1st election where the a.f. deal was reelected and brilliantly so we doubled our results and brandenburg and almost tripled in saxon and huge in all. of course i was happy that we managed literally in the homestretch to win this election for the s.p.d. i mean you saw the opinion polls a few weeks ago we were still a 3rd place. but we saw him for the if he worries me a lot it was all i could have that we can compare this to what is happening in italy. there the lega formerly the league of nord is also initiating change they have reached the whole of italy and now are certainly the dominant peoples party there at the moment. we are moving in this direction except that the change is not coming from the north of the country but from the east. well i'm joined tonight by frank christiane handle he is a member of the a d. and of berlin's city parliament he used to be a member of the social democrats here in germany it's good to have you on the show tonight let's talk let's talk numbers. 25 percent is what your party got in