gaiter political correspondent my fellow anchor thanks for being with us so late
into the night christopher was talk about the. they are going to enter parliament
as the third strongest party in their parliament with seven different parties how
do they do it well they've always positioned themselves as an anti-establishment
part of the narrative. you know we tell it as it is we puncture the empty rhetoric
that comes from from government ministers and there's
a certain type of voter that likes that kind of narrative what has really boosted
their popularity though is their very stark criticism of chancellor merkel's
decision back in twenty fifteen to open germany's borders and let in over
a million refugees that particular position feeds on the fear is and the anger
of many people particularly in east germany over that decision and has really
allowed them to to win thirteen percent of the electorate what can we expect from
the a d in the book we heard from one of the party's leading...