After the Election: How Isolated Is Merkel? | Quadriga

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 reported on the Mecklenburg election for Politico.