It is seen as a slap in the face for Angela Merkel. The election result in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern saw the chancellor’s conservatives slumping into third place – behind the populist right-wing Alternative for Germany party (AfD).
Our guests:
Ulrike Herrmann is a business editor at the Berlin daily taz.
Malte Lehming is the opinion editor at Der Tagesspiegel newspaper.
Janosch Delcker has reported on the Mecklenburg election for Politico.
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