the who's this is the w news lie from berlin. germany far right. failed to shake up the political order in 18 regional election. latest pose show, the populace alternative for germany party is beaten by anglo medical's conservatives. we'll have the results and the reaction ah, i'm pablo finally as welcome to the program. germany is far, rice has failed in its attempt to send

a shock waves across the political landscape in a regional election. exit polls show angular. michael's conservatives have constantly seen off a challenge from the alternative for germany in the eastern state of saxony, unheard. the f t did not manage to win a surprise victory over the chancellor's party. but the far right still makes up. the 2nd biggest block in the regional parliament. so voting has now ended. so let's take a look at the projected results based on exit polls taken throughout the day. as you can see there, angler macros conservatives the see to you are on 35.9. the far right a f d on 22.7, the socialist left party 10.9. the centre left s p d on 8.3, the environmentalists green's on 6.5 and the business friendly f t p on 6.4. right, well to talk about the significance of these results. i'm joined by d w political corresponding hands plans here in the studio. hi, hans,

and welcome to the program and dw the chief political editor, mikayla, cuz now who joins us from mike to berg. right. so i'm going to start with mikaela mikaela. grammatical c, d, u has emerged from the election well ahead of the a f d yet sac to me and how it is a relatively small german state. so why does this regional action matter so much? well like so often in life, it's the timing because this is the last test ahead of those elections in at the end of september that will mark the end of the macro era. and we'll decide what comes next. but it's also because it's one of those eastern states where the a s d did particularly well in the past, and it's still actually doing well. it came out of nowhere, 5 years ago, almost got 25 percent. now just round about 22 percent and i'm going to macros

party really bouncing back here and exceeding all expectations. one can say, because the next question we have to ask, what's up with those opinion polls. even the most optimistic one, put, i'm going to proceed. you party, not above 30 percent, now it might be $36.00. if these exit polls translate into results and nobody has seen the sd do below 23. and that is exactly what happened here, according to those exit polls. so a big question marks of how much the polling is, was, and a resounding victory for the conservative c d u policy, which is bad. the nice going into what is so far been a rather shaky election campaign. right, so residing, victory appears for the cd. you know, many thought mikaela that the, the f t party code when, what did the c v you offer that the a f d couldn't well it did offer.