truly historic result for the very 1st time to greens would come in 1st with 26 percent all of them ackles conservative c.d.u. c.s.u. bloc fall. 2nd place edged out with 25 percent and coming in 3rd right wing populist if the the alternative for germany just 13 percent another jolt mackerels coalition partners the center left social democrats dropping to 4th place with only 12 percent the markets friendly f.d.p. would get 8 percent on the far left left 47 percent. ok an incredible result more on that let's talk with your political correspondent good morning hans the greens began their rise didn't they in many ways their steady rise last summer with the drought that that swept across large parts of europe and it hit germany in a hard way is that what's behind their strong showing climate change well they certainly that train that climate issues environmental issues have become the top subject for the sub top concern for voters in the last year and a half or so partly i think this is the droughts of the very hot summer that we had last year was one push factor in that. and generally that was

a truly historic result for the very 1st time the greens would come in 1st with 26 percent on the ackles conservative c.d.u. c.s.u. bloc falling to 2nd place with 25 percent and coming in 3rd the right wing populist e.f.t. at 13 percent another jolt coalition partners the social democrats dropping to 4th place with only 12 percent the market friendly have to be at 8 percent and the far left left 47 percent. you know political correspondent hans bronze with me now in the studio for more on skid morning to you the latest spike in a green popularity came with the drought last summer hit europe hard germany hard as well is that what is behind this strong showing in the poll climate change is a thing climate change and our mental issues have come to the fore in the last year and a half or so we look at what issues were important to voters just before the last general election at the end of 2017 there's a kind of traditional things such as migration unemployment pensions questions like that but i think very strong was the effect of the hot summer that we had in europe last year and the feeling

at the height of what became known as the migration crisis in 2015 here and he actually defended ackles open arms policy for migration and in one particular instance he reminded people who were being very negative about a migrant institution of christian values of you know the seed in this conservancy you stance a christian and that if they didn't like those christian values they should basically leave the country now another reason to look for a cafe at this case is that after this chile i'm still don't know who actually did this there were right wing extremists online who were celebrating his death who were really boasting about it and we even saw the german president condemn this kind of rhetoric and we're already hearing from somebody who was on the investigative committee of the n.s.u. mud a series where basically far right wing extremists just simply went and shot germans with a migratory background and we already had to vent out from the left posse calling for a special investigation or a special meeting of the interior committee of the to talk the parliament if this link is trul

an historic result for the very 1st time the greens would come in 1st with 26 percent although i'm ackles conservative bloc falls to 2nd place with 25 percent coming in 3rd the right wing populist am. did 13 percent another jolt mackerels coalition partners the center left social democrats dropping to 4th place with only 12 percent the markets friendly f.t.p. would get 8 percent and the far left left party 7 percent. ok let's break this down now it's political correspondent good morning hans last year we saw the steady rise when it began of green popularity but the drought that had europe and germany hard is the green rating right now all about climate change is something that is a climate change the environmental issues have come to the fore in the last year or so partly because everyone felt it when that hot sun came across europe last year partly because they have been on the street protests from the fridays for future movement from great atoned and sweden and so on so that issue has been pushed to the forefront very much in the last year or so if we look back at the last general elect

this would be the outcome the 1st time the greens would get the most votes 26 percent on the limb ackles conservative seaview c.s.u. bloc would be right behind with 25 percent then comes the far right populist alternative for germany party with 13 percent miracles 30 current coalition partner of the center left social democrats would drop to 4th place with just 12 percent business friendly f.t.p. would get 8 percent followed by the left party with 7 percent. so those are the polling numbers let's take a closer look now at what's driving this boost in support for germany's environmentalists are we asked climate protesters at today's friday for a future rally here in berlin what they think about this green surge for. demonstrators have been protesting for weeks to get the politicians to act on climate change many think the green party has at least some of the answers does that explain the support for the grains. green v i i would vote green i think the greens have the best golds the best thing. you think of my life i think many people see them as an alternative to feeling that but also as