s.p.d. and she's also the parliamentary. but she's not a member of the cabinet and from dr spektor she will have a little bit more freedom to try and start that really your goal as she herself mentioned here is not only to establish what the priorities could be within the social democrats but also to debate and decide how those priorities should be achieved something that according to many here was one of the problems in the last federal election so that's how she would try and make that renewal of the social democrats possible ok thomas many thanks for that thomas sparrow political correspondent reporting there from the s.p.d. party conference. now it's been a free scoring weekend so far in germany's business leader in sport including a spectacular time yesterday between rb lights and hoffenheim both teams still have qualification for european competition next season firmly within their sights in their last encounter like they suffered its biggest been asleep defeat to date and embarrassing for neil defeats and as it turned

s.p.d. parliamentary group of the german born to start but it will be certainly be a very difficult task for and they are not as you mentioned you know the germany social democrats have been suffering losing support in recent years like social democrats all over europe really what you can do to revive the fortunes of social democracy both in germany and also in europe. what do you say christopher is absolutely right this is not only a problem that the german social democrats are facing on in fact the german social democrats are very much aware that this is a problem that many similar parties in europe are facing and they are not less will probably try first and foremost to make a clear profile of what it means to be a social democratic party that's a problem that we see not only in germany but also know that parts of europe voters do not have a sense that the party that the parties have a clear line that's something that basically has changed because before they did have a clear line the working class party for example is how they defined it but many of the traditional voters of the social d

the morning is a moment longer is running against parliamentary party leader andrea dollis to lead the german social democratic party the s.p.d. we want to learn more about her morning and first officer welcome to the interview ms lagat. interview for long yeah thank you we're going to welcome feeling about what does andrea and alice think about you competing with her for votes one that's why isn't it i don't know because neither let's know the s.p.d. national party executive have come into. that's in one has there at least been some contact and was i've heard nothing from the party executive and i only had brief contact with andrea not as she asked me if we could meet for coffee at some point i said yes but unfortunately she doesn't have time now. so you actually haven't even met her that's not exactly eye level does that bother you a bit. and the traditional place does yes of course that bothers me i believe that the s.p.d. could handle things much more confident they are can be several candidates for the top jobs after all leadership is the highest s.p.d. position in germany and i think it would benefit the s.p.d. to show

is running against parliamentary party leader to lead the german social democratic party the s.p.d. we want to learn more about her morning. welcome to the interview ms lagat recalled .

the morning is a moment longer is running against parliamentary party leader andre and alice to lead the german social democratic party the s.p.d. we want to learn more about her morning. welcome to the d w interview ms lagat. interview yeah thank you we're going to welcome feeling about what does andrea and alice think about you competing with her for votes on that's why is it i don't know no because.