the 38-year-old will count on strong support from his predecessor, guido westerwelle. >> with philipp rosler at the helm we support him and he has my personal support. i will not grab the sfeering wheel whether from my successor. >> with rosler in the driver's seed the f.d.p. hopes the road ahead will be just a bit smoother. >> our political correspondent simon young has been covering the conference in for us. we asked him if the new team has the potential to turn around the party's fortunes. >> well, that's what everybody here is certainly hoping. from the free democrats' point ofiew this party conference is all about renewal. the party at one of its lowest points in its history, had two disastrous state election results just this year and in national polls they're doing very badly, indeed a poll just out today suggests more than half of germans don't believe that the free democrats are fit to join the government which is astonishing g en you consider they are actually part of merkel's coalition government. so guido westerwelle said he didn't manage to get his message across, he's st