he even won backing from mainstream parties such as angela merkel's conservative cdu party.ow they want him thrown out of office. >> not many people in germany are interested in knowing how th s small town n in the centerf germanany elected stefan jagsch. a few days agogo, the pololiticn from the extxtreme right wingg , announced on facebook he was a listed municipal arbitrator. -- administrator. the vote was unanimous, including boats from angela memerkel's cdu and her coalition partner. one of the council members who voted it, defended its choice. >> we are trying to helplp the pepeople and a address their is. that's alall. party membership does not play a role for us. >> he has worked for the npd on a national level for years. authorities have twice soughght and failed tbaban the party asaa threat to o germany's democratic order. the mastic intelligence service has kept close eyes on the party. he has even showed up on their report on right-wing extremists. he was to makati -- to mechanically elected because no other candidate was available. the views of residents are mix

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angela merkel‘s party, the cdu, are on 15.5%.lso risen — are on 10%. and here's the exit poll from saxony. let's just take a look at those figures. chancellor merkel‘s cdu party look set to remain as the largest party there with around 32% of the vote. alternative for germany have made gains, however. they are on 27.5%. the greens are on 9%. and the social democrats are on 8%. let's get the latest from our correspondence in germany, damien mcguinness. it can be, at first glance, a quick confusing picture. there were two trends. firstly, the afd come that far right oculus party you mentioned, how did they do? —— populist party. they have done well, but they have not done quite as well as they hoped because, in brandenburg, until today, they were neck and neck with the ruling ce ntreleft neck and neck with the ruling centreleft spd party, the party in coalition with angela merkel‘s government and the national government. they had hoped, the afd, to come first. that would have been an historic win for the afd. they would not have go

but where there's a real race between ungrammatical cdu party regionally on the far right afp so and many feel second class citizen it's a generational question very much as well but if you look at a map of how much disposable income there is and you can still quite clearly see where the wall stood between east and west germany and m. that's is where is this entire part of the country lacks behind. that them also cont put down a payment for the kids in central berlin as many west germans do and this will have an impact on how people feel in the east and it's a very emotive election campaign that's for sure allen i'm sure that many of our viewers andnd certainly all of us here will remember that famous bill clinton quote from one of his own election campaigns when he said it's the economy stupid meaning it always comes down to the pocket book. now here's another paradox in surveys east germans express levels of personalal economic satisfaction pretty much comparable with those in the west so what's going on here is this second class feeling about something other than economics yeah it

going forward for now, at least, it means angela merkel‘s party, the cdu ‘s are still able to governthis election had been if the socialist party, the s bd, they could have pulled the plug on the coalition. they did do extremely badly in saxony, only 7.596, extremely badly in saxony, only 7.5%, but it did well enough into brandenburg and i think assumption has got to be the coalition in berlin will continue for certainly the rest of this year and probably next year as well but it remains an u nsta ble next year as well but it remains an unstable situation for mrs michael, that her main coalition partner is in such electoral distress at the moment. —— mrs angela merkel. what do they need to do to wind? despite 30 years of reunification in his germany, there is a feeling that there is this sort of divide between there is this sort of divide between the east and west that you get in britain between the north and south and we saw that reflected in the brexit vote and more has got to be done to overcome this divide. part of the problem is that a lot of the young people in east germany hav

establishment parties, with the centre—left social democrats winning brandenburg, and angela merkel‘s cdu. our berlin correspondent damien mcguinness has been assessing the significance of the exit polls for those establishment parties. there are two main themes here, one of which is how did angela merkel‘s party, the main party, do in the election is? the incumbents are likely to stay in government. angela merkel‘s conservatives who have ruled in saxony since reunification, are likely to stay, and the social democrats in brandenburg who have also ruled since reunification. there had been fears in those parties at the populist would push them both out of government. that would have been disastrous for either party, and would have sparked a crisis in the national government, in angela merkel‘s coalition, because both parties are struggling with various internal rows at the moment, and they are both trying to find out which direction they are going to go in, both have leadership issues. and if either had suffered a really poor result and been pushed out of government in either saxony oi’ ou

saw something similar attempted in germany when the city you try to put together a coalition -- the cdu to put together a coalition with the greens. that didn't work out. is it likely it will in vienna? boris: it will definitely be difficult. it will please -- and be easy to form a two party coalition, not a three party coalition. but still, you have a lot of policy differences between kurz and the green party. however, his other options are not so great. i think he's definitely going to give the first try, he will try to start talks with the green party for new government and try to find common ground. anna: boris, good morning. what is the big stumbling block? what will prevent the steel from being done? boris: on the one hand, you've got kurz with a clear program on issues like migration, a big thing for him. he advocated tough line. he wants to lower taxes, not invent new taxes. the greens are favoring a new tax. and they are also less restrictive on migration. those are two issues that will be difficult for them to square. much, borisyou very crandall, bloomberg's desk ground all -

anna: just in the last few saying, the cdu's leader they did not meet the expectations. these results very seriously. breather for them in the governing coalition as you say because may be rise of populism, maybe it is not gathering momentum as quickly as it had been but we see a very big populist presence in germany in these elections. remind us how quickly this phenomenon has appeared. chad: this was a party that was not present a couple of election cycles ago and now the fact that they almost won in both of the states is a real wake-up for these parties and if we look at the social democrats, they were governing in brandenburg. if you look at how they did in sexton east, they scored less than 8% of the vote. that was their worst showing in a state election in the postwar history in germany. certainly the social democrats while they did squeaked by, there is going to be a lot of discussion within the party in the coming months about their way forward as well. they are said to have a review later this year. this will all be part of that discussion. anna: thanks very muc