the greens and democrats maintaining their lead with more details his our europe correspondent peter odom. this will be a big wake up call or at least it should be a wake up call for the christian democratic union they've posted the worst ever historically low numbers in 2 key states in the south west of germany and book and the rhineland poll latin it now has serious talk about the vote leading to the. then being cut out of government in those 2 states once the horse trading over coalitions is finished while the christian democratic union suffered big losses the big winners were the green party quite literally in boston fortan book but certainly in rhineland collaton it in terms of putting themselves in a position to be part of a future coalition government green party leaders say that voters is showing that they're sick and tired of the status quo that's what. turns trust in the politics of democratic decisions is crumbling the reason for this is the mismanagement of the federal government during the coronavirus pandemic and especially the corruption scandals of the c.d.u. as a result t