successor but this is germany ready for the shake up that she stands for and a very warm welcome to to derek scully of the irish times who argues that martin. paid the ultimate kiss of death from a national campaign before it can even get underway. personally thank you very much for those 3 statements a lot to talk about to leave me now let me begin with you and ask you to put so in a nutshell what has happened in the last 567 days also for people who. well for people outside germany it's now becoming clearer who the faces are that are going to be relevant in germany in the next couple of months until we go to the polls in september because of course for a long time and i couldn't understand why you took in the c.s. you so long to battle this out it looked as though the cd you still believe that they could go into this campaign with anglo american as their figurehead when it's clear it's been clear for a very long time that she's not going to run again this week they finally decided it's going to be it and then the greens didn't have that rivalry going on a tall they presented a very silky smooth c