mr. atkins. >> chair: there are no callers for this item. okay. colleagues, i want to thank all of the ap applicants for board 1, the complex assessment appeals board and make the following suggestion to keep things fresh, which is as follows: some of these seats are regular seats and some of them are alternates. i hear good words about all of the folks that i was thinking that we might want to elevate, if you will, some of the alternates into the permit seats and do a little switch around. and to that end, i would make the following recommendation colleagues: john calper, whose name i continue to mispronounce to seat number two. christine nelson to seat number four. paul beller to seat number five. elizabeth zoria to seat number six. and scott to seat number eight. and if that is okay with you, i would request a roll call on that motion. >> clerk: on the motion as stated by chair peskin: [roll call taken] >> clerk: there are three ayes. >> chair: and then we will send that to the full board with recommendation. does that require an additional rol

mrs merkel initially stood aside from the campaign, but has played a more active role after the spd overtook her christian democrats in the opinion polls. let's go live to the bbc�*s ros atkinsd out tomorrow night. it has been interesting that she has largely stood to the side and allowed the next candidate to do his own think that the polls have suggested that may not be enough so we have had these interventions from angela merkel, but despite that, all of the polling is putting the social democrats at the top at the moment. that is remarkable. the social democrats were languishing a couple of months ago in third but the candidate and his colleagues have seen their polling improve a great deal and a lot of it has been built around this style of politics that he is offering, very, and measure land in his words stable. he basically is saying that i am from a different party but you can expect to similar style of politics to the one you have had from angela merkel because all of these candidates are very aware that the germans have liked what angela merkel has done. potsdam is getting a lot of attention because the leader of the greens and the other candidate or post on here.