this is anna lena babcock. —— annalena baerbock, the leader of the green party. i -- annalena baerbockbaerbock's leadership, time magazine describes how she| europe. on baerbock's leadership, i time magazine describes how she has bridged divides between the party's long feuding fundamentalist and realist wings, overseeing the green split was consolidation as a pro—business centrist party. that may be, but after briefly leading in the polls, the greens are now back in third. here is the polling from last week again, and we've talked about the cdu csu, about the social democrats and about the greens, but also note the far right afd, the far left the linker, and the liberal conservatives, the fdp. now, nobody will work in coalition with the afd, but all the other party matter. that is because german governments are always coalitions. this is how it works. are you ready? ok, here we go. germans cast two votes. one for a local mp, one for a political party. at least 598 members are elected by these two votes. then half of the bundestag is made up of local mps, half are elected from party li