right wing populism is on the rise in germany as well the f.t. party is entering parliament what can journalists do to bring these angry citizens back to the fold. i don't believe that it's de w.'s job to confront the germans in germany with topic matter in any way. main task is clearly to address overseas audiences. but we do believe it makes sense for our programming in english arabic and spanish to be made available in germany as well in order to build a bridge between different nations and languages. and. i think it will be unrest in germany and the rise of right wing populism is something that's happening across europe. where no exception. it is nevertheless dangerous when these political parties try to chip away at democracy. when they don't just express themselves in a so-called nationalist manner. but when they stray from the basic principles of democracy it becomes dangerous and the job of the media is to identify that and to make every instance of it public and not to capitulate or stay silent or accept the fact that someone is attacking a de

f.t. so the old p.d.'s left party and the f.t. have more in common than you might think and. i head for the north district hardly anyone here gave their vote to the far right. a good friend of mine from university lives here kiersten quant grew up in the former communist east germany and has spent most of her life interesting she says the a.f.d. has been able to tap into democratic sentiments that have deep roots in eastern germany. but really just get a new car the kaiser's and then naturally there's been a strong nationalistic shift especially in rural areas to the point where a far right ideology has been making a comeback is why do i believe it still existed under the radar in communist east germany. it was swept under the carpet and never dealt with because it was glossed over by ideology. to the outside world people presented themselves and socialist anti fascist dandy racist and so on but in people's heads for some people back then they never really made that mental switch. they just suppressed what was bubbling underneath the surface when you now it's coming back up t

campaign the f.t. party is making a bid to go mainstream. so dealing with xenophobic populism at home in germany may prove to be a medical's next big challenge. and with the c.d.u. c.s.u. in the social democrats slated to be the two largest parties the race is really on for third place now the latest opinion polls indicate that position could go to the far right alternative for germany or f.t. it's on course to become the first far right party voted into german parliament since world war two and it is likely to shake up the political consensus with its opposition to migrants and islam. a.f.d. election posters leave little to the imagination new germans will make values ourselves reads this one because past this slogan we're into bikini's if there were any down to about the alternative on offer it's islamophobia and anti immigrant stop islamification photo you have to be reads this poster to suppose that threat posed by islam in migrants has been a key campaign message for the have to use lead candidates. politicked often and the policy of op

wing extremist party with nationalist elements so in that respect it's a challenge for all democrats for the fall of democrat. wherever merkel went during the campaign she was booed by f.t. hecklers with a party in the bundestag should be facing vocal far right opponents from the opposition benches. has got thirteen percent of her always germans who are voting for them well we can tell you now. if we take a look at the numbers for the a.f.d. which are coming up here on this wall behind me you can see that roughly a million votes came from people who used to support the conservatives americal gave up a million votes to the a.f.d. this time around half a million came from former s.p.d. supporters almost as many from the left party and smaller numbers roughly forty to fifty thousand for both the greens and the f.t.p. so it bears repeating this idea that the conservatives are bleeding support to the f.t. is borne out by the numbers that we're seeing right now we can also take a look at which part of germany is most supportive of the after because the trend here is really interesting here in the eastern part of germany the a.f.d. has a lot more support than it does in the co

right wing populism is on the rise in germany as well the f.t. party is entering parliament what can journalists do to bring these angry citizens back to the fold. i don't believe that it's to confront the germans in germany with the topic matter in any way. main task is clearly to address overseas audiences. but we do believe it makes sense for programming in english arabic and spanish to be made available in germany as well in order to build a bridge between different nations and languages. and. i think that the unrest in germany and the rise of right wing populism is something that's happening across europe. where no exception. it is nevertheless dangerous when these political parties try to chip away at democracy. when they don't just express themselves in a so-called nationalist manner. but when they stray from the basic principles of democracy it becomes dangerous and the job of the media is to identify that and to make every instance of it public and not to capitulate or stay silent or accept the fact that someone is attacking a democracy. and a

photos don't support the party's platform it's just protest because no one is listening to them. i don't vote for the f.t. myself but i also didn't vote for the established parties because they no longer represent voters interests. that i did you ask so everyone who voted they didn't vote out of conviction. as. the problem that the f.t. addresses are problems that everyone has. during the last legislative period no party really addressed them for a long time none of the established parties sitting in parliament really wanted to address the fears people had. they didn't want to hear them. in the us market it clears i feel very uneasy when i look at what's happening in the districts address and. one district goes entirely for the s.d. things while the other one entirely backs the left. these are extremes that have huge potential take my conflict and blow up his buttons yeah that's what i find worrying like this one does not make of. an explosive situation that's why many would rather not speak openly about their opinion of the a.f.p. and how it's changed the city an old friend also voted for the far right

small groups of protesters from the far right alternative for germany cloaked machall campaign the f.t. party is making a bid to go mainstream. so dealing with xenophobia populism a tome in germany may prove to be medical's next big challenge. and let's talk a little bit more about those challenges now we are joined in the studio by political correspondent brian times we were just hearing there a little bit more about the far right alternative for germany and their prospects for getting in the german parliament which appear to be good at this point how would that change the dynamic when we talk about the whole governing and process there in the parliament well it's already changed the dynamic of public discourse in germany of political discourse in germany as we have seen in this report the f.t. has sent protesters to all of narcos public appearances it's become a lot more raucous a lot more in some sense a lot more vicious than just the pub public dispute in germany and that's likely to be the case in parliament as well there will be a lot more vociferous opposition to the established party

run jobs often the authors just don't wall the media after they start the rumor let them off the f.t. party did not want to talk to us either only a f.t. candidate nicholas fest was willing to speak. first said he couldn't remember where he read the information but that it was not gates' tone. to find out how this story managed to spread at all we turn to z. mon haggling. if when it comes to fake news we look for traces and clues. we examined how it was distributed and whether social bots were involved which may have made the stories much bigger than they really were. to find out why fake news story spread so rapidly we had to cologne. there we caught up with elizabeth bailing. she's a cognitive scientist at u.c. berkeley who studies the language of populists and fake news stories. veiling investigates health fake news lodges in our brains and what emotions it triggers. specially well are very concrete images or very simple sentences words and ideas. this is typical for fake news stories and certain corners of the internet this very simple imagery. and these very simple concepts are what ge

legitimate political spectrum which has now been filled by a new party so it's her fault that the f.t even exists it would never have existed never of a risen under say cole he would never have allowed this he never would have moved the party the way michael did so america has destroyed the s.p.d. by basic crushing them on the left but has opened up a massive gap on the right which has been all been filled by the. i think i show says that pledge to take the s.p.d. into a position do you think you being a soul is that. maybe he's just realizing if he goes for another large coalition that next election will be down to fifteen percent and he wants to avoid that fate how long is he going to hang around him of the they said they want to keep him as chairman for now tonight on the going to want to do going to say that how long is he going to be around you think realistically. a few months or maybe a year or something more interesting is how long is michael going to be around she was talking a few days ago about fifty three elections while she can just forget about a fifth reelection utility

f.t. parties but a good night if you've got your party your. best about the misery in the s.t.v. camp and they're standing by him they want him to remain as chairman what went wrong for them he's been in this grand coalition it's been safe for four years or the the junior partner but i'm done well tonight first of all. the one whenever you are in a coalition with her and you lose the next election will think second they had the wrong if you ever focus on social security and social justice or the country is talking about immigration. and in my opinion truth is just the romance of he has no charisma and he's not very sympathetic to people distrust of what he painted himself as the the the working person's man the man of the working people that didn't people didn't buy what was that in bike that vote for him. when he believes that he has some kind of them is sierra but people didn't see him like this. verse and he had a complete for all exception of his. how he would affect. the people the people standing behind him for now going to last the party standing behind him for now there's

parties the c.d.u. c.s.u. bloc losing one million votes to the f.t. but they want to the only ones all the other parties also lost a considerable number of their voters to the alternative four dots land which is the i'll try party here where exactly are these voters coming from this have a look at our heat now the dock a blue areas are where the f.t. is enjoying most of the support and it's very clear from looking at this that the eastern bloc of the german country is where a lot of their support is coming from well so me particularly here to saxony where one of their leaders is based frock a pear tree and it's not a surprise then that she would enjoy considerable considerable support right there in her backyard but a lot of people on twitter saying that it's not just the east that was voting for the a.f.p. . people in the east are also voting for the c.d.u. as we can see enjoying twenty seven percent that even though they do enjoy a considerable support in that part of the country but a potties do as well but how exactly will this affect german politi

f.t. party's election night headquarters they were chanting they were calling the f d a party of fascists and the entire experience left one of the a.s.d. leaders and his family while the rock told we couldn't leave the party headquarters in fear for our launch my partner and her daughter were attacked by these demonstrators those who say that we are nazis that is richard this is what these naive people believe we are furious about this we are a party that stands completely by the rule of law and freedom and we want to protect political discourse perhaps some of the a.f.d. politicians were hoping that once they got into here is national m.p.'s then them and their concerns would have a greater legitimacy but in fact if the protests yesterday were anything to go by the level of anger towards them and the so-called other ring of them in german society has only grown if anything following the vote it is really quiet outside the bundestag today and there is a sense that the country is collectively scratching its head trying to figure out what's happened at these elections and while the t.v. po

get here is that they're really glad to make their vote in all or to also to avoid far right parties like the f.t. i want to show people they're most concerned about well people are concerned about the education you know young lots of young families and cohn and they say hey the parties have to in west. in education and of course house of the voters the average the average age is fifty two they're worried about their pensions do they still have enough money after they stop working and of course the migration crisis is a big topic over year two people are worried about the future of germany what happens if the f.t. gets too many votes so they're worried about what's what's going on in this country is going too far to write. there are lots of undecided voters this year somewhere between thirty and forty percent you've been speaking to people that one of undecideds been telling you. yeah the response of the voters here is that they it was difficult for them to decide because they said all the big parties like city consider you and shills as pretty as too close to each other the campaigning was too c

merkel's main challenger martin schulz has urged germans to boycott the far right anti integration f.t. party let's take you live now to berlin laurence li is there is lawrence a shoo in for a fourth term is it a foregone conclusion. well i mean it would have to mean that every single opinion poll from germany's extremely well respected pollsters is wrong by about fifteen points i mean all of them have said more or less exactly the same week after week and so you know it's almost a foregone conclusion. policy will win by about about sort of twelve fifteen points the question some of the germans are mystic politics is what happens this far right policy most of the power they hold because it looks like they might end up getting the third highest share of the votes and clearly i think given. knows that she's she's going to win she will already have been thinking about what sort of coalition she'd like if it's a continuation of what exists at the moment which is between the center right and center left then the f.t. on the far right become the official position which i daresay that you don't want

that has been in office for four years one of the things you hear shouted at rallies both of the f.t. party but also of other far right movements in germany's merkel most affect it means merkel must go well clearly this result suggests she will not go but she'll have to deal with a parliament in which there will be many far right members of parliament back to you and thank you dominic well done of getting those numbers nice and quick to us i've actually had a little grath emailed to me from dominic's production team there in berlin just going to bring it up here to show the exit poll as it came out at the top of the act and we bring that up stones going it's not there we go ok so this is anglo-american party right here in black thirty three and a half percent of the vote so the idea would be coalitions and i think dominic's just talked about a jamaica coalition which to my knowledge would be black green and yellow together the f.t.p. the clean party and the christian democrats there is also the outside chance i guess of a grand coalition between the two main parties there and the other impo

f.t. they will turn to for germany the right wing populist party they have been reports that the f.t. have been organizing groups of hecklers that travel around to anglo-american. rallies is there substance to that yes that's true i mean there were many different groups at the rallies not only from the a.f.p. but also from other far right groups and it is true that the f.t. has organized bus trips to the various rallies but it's not as if the same fifty people were just. drove driven around the whole of germany and been to different places they were also local people i've been to three of. the locations with there were different people. and there were just also people that just lived there and came there to protest against genuine locals as they are not people who were bussed in and you know some commentators are describing the mood of germany's election as calm on the surface but scratch a little bit of the surface away and it's bubbling with anger underneath with is that accurate i think it's in a way true yes i mean in general you have to see that most germans are quite satisfied w

mainstream parties a message and that's why they cast their ballot for the far right populist party that being said the f.t. also represents a platform for people who feel like their views conservative right wing maybe even alter right wing views haven't been represented in the passenger many particularly as chancellor merkel has moved her own party of the c.d.u. formerly conservative now more and more towards the middle and so there are the voters who have come to the f.t. because they are convinced that this is the right party to represent conservative perspectives within germany to assume some risk on the finance thank you so much. i don't get you can always get the w. news on the go just download it from google player from the apple store i will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news you can also use it to send us the photos and videos in situ up to date on how football for you at the top of the hour in the meantime of course is always the website that's d.w. dot com have a good day. story so that people the world over t.w. on fa

f.t. it's a far. right party it's going to be coming the third strongest party in the bone to start entering it for the first time what can we expect from the f.t. well we've seen a few of their actions in the state legislators and i'm going to think that the tone is going to get rougher. they are very good at provoking discourse they are very good at torpedoing sort of business as usual. and there are going to try to use these very same tactics in the bundestag as well to what extent they will be successful. we will see. but i do also think that we may see some movement from other parties to try and accommodate the kind of. concerns that they may be raising when you say concerns what concerns are they raising so we do see two main thrusts of the argument one is of course the specific focus on migration and the other the very standard populist rhetoric of the centrist potties having abandoned the average german and to try and combat this of course the other parties may have to do a little bit more in trying to at

party co-chair spoke of p.t. was glaringly absent a day earlier she'd said she wouldn't be part of the f.t.'s parliamentary group because the party had moved too far to the right the question now is whether other deputies will follow her and go. as of intimate code don't expect any further deputies to leave but no have to wait and see the move surprised us all here but we've not yet seen any tendencies within the future problem entry group second. haiti was one of the f.t.'s most prominent faces but she had been sidelined by hardliners in recent months. on monday she dropped her bombshell she was leaving. and she i have decided that i don't want to be a member of the a.f.p. parliamentary group and the german bund is talk taking up my seat in this one does talk as an independent but rest assured i'll remain actively engaged in politics is vital and active political not the other. but she won't be with a populist here fifteen it's drift towards the far right and left her isolated and her husband marcus puts it was if tea party leader in the state of north rhine-westphalia is also quitting the

domestic problems that she has to deal with one of the big stories of course is the rise of the f.t. party in this election and i'm going to market i said to have undermined her opponent martin short by assuming some of the socialist policies that were carried by his party do you think that she's going to have to take a similar tactic when dealing with the f.t. . well martin shultz was a sort of competitor whereas she'll see the a.f.d. as an enemy and there's someone as a party that she doesn't want to see in the german ever again after this at this period so i think that while she'll have to adapt her policies that her strategy when it comes to the f.t. will just be to ignore them and see what happens what will be interesting is whether the pressure and how are the changes they've accepted this sort of resolute centrism that she's had as you said stealing policies from the center left it will probably be the case that this will jockey for position to be her successor they'll move the party back further to the right although i think the real live there remain a very sort of strong barrier

party won thirty four percent of seats in the one to start the s.p.d. one twenty one percent the f.t. far right party was third with thirteen percent the remaining three parties all won around ten percent of seats in parliament merkel is largely expected to build her coalition with the pro-business f.t.p. party and the green party or let's bring in our panel who all join us from berlin today detract long hours of retired german ambassador and former permanent representative to the e.u. to alston bena as director of the global public policy institute and bethany alan abraham and as a contribution writer for foreign policy magazine welcome to you all and best of one caliph i could start with you is the chancellor angela merkel's christian democrats have won a fourth term but given this is their worst electoral result in the post-war era you know since nineteen forty nine they're down eight point six percent from the last election result just how but her sway to victory is this. well it is after all is certain the limited triumph. for the fourth time she is going to be in charge of the

here in dazed and in eastern germany the party has solid support in fact in this region saxony the f.t. received more votes than any other party frank going big born locally just after the second world war says many people here feel neglected by the traditional parties but the a.f.p. has also been boosted by chancellor merkel's decision to let in hundreds of thousands of refugees two years ago here b i n one i think asylum seekers and immigrants are treated better than people on low incomes and the f.t. brings that out into the open and given the a.f.p. success here you'd think it would be easy to find people who voted for it but you'd be wrong quite a while trying to find an a.f.p. supporter will explain their choice to us but we simply haven't found anybody who will admit on camera to voting for the party but what about in the working class suburbs here we did find one unashamed a.f.d. voter. i feel left behind barely never understands me that was disturbing me this couple say they didn't vote but think many people back to the f.t. for reasons other than immigration and i think that

left party in the green party alongside those two big parties that are in coalition together at the moment the question is whether to give the f.t. feel to it for germany germany the right far right party will make it past the five percent hurdle and also the free democrats the liberal liberal economics party if they will also make it back to palm and if those two parties join the existing four parties we're going to see a very different bundestag and potentially some very different coalitions going ahead and what have been the big issues. well there hasn't really been one standout issue the economy is doing very well the unemployment rate stayed at an all time low so that means that economics which is a bread and butter issue of election campaigns hasn't really been as prominent as we might have expected we've seen a lot of talk on fairness in terms of seeing getting that growth down to lower wage earners pay packets maybe also immigration asylum of the migration crisis of the last few years seen over a million people come into germany in the question of how to integrate those people but at the polling station we were talking t

f.t. headquarters to protest against the party the f.t. is dividing germans and its rise could make german politics equally fiery. our correspondent mark is out about on the streets of dresden and eastern part of germany fabiani i have did it especially well there in saxony where you are and also in other german states why do you think that is. yeah well that's true the. second biggest party in the east of germany and here in sex need even turned out to be the best party with some seven twenty seven percent that they got here in sex in the end i'm here in the capital into easton where also the. anti islam movement met every monday now it's in three years and they were protesting against the so-called islam eyes ation of europe and germany and that is one of the reasons that all the. supporters and voters also name when they are asked why they vote for this party oh yeah they also made gains in western germany do you think it was an economic factors immigration fears what's going on there well the refugee policy of anglo-american is certain

f.t. because of their context their positions but because they wanted to teach us the other party's a lessonsand the second remark is we should not underestimate a second point yes we lost the last one million to the f.t. the far right but we also lost one point three million so more voters to the liberals and that's where our competence is and that's the topics we have to focus on these are the hard working families these are people who care about topics like digitalization or education and that's where we have to focus on do you expect that under this in these new conditions of forming a coalition that the relationship of germany to the united states for instance could change well i am convinced that america will be the chancellor for the fourth term and you know her she's very reliable and therefore we all know that we have a deep founded friendship to the united states this is so will it foundation of zillions of relationship between our both countries and i have no doubt that this friendship will go on. and that was germany's defense minister ursula from the lion speaking with us earlier

f.t. is the third strongest party that says it all. still he doesn't believe that all the people who voted for the f.t. are actually far right. this blog i think the f.t. got its voters because the conservatives and the s.p.d. were so bad. the majority of people on the street doesn't seem to be happy with the outcome of the election either. of the big parties didn't get the job done and now the f.t. will be able to pop out their chests. to tell you the truth i'm not disappointed i'm interested in how they plan to put their ideas into action. no but if i think that these four years will show which of those promises they can keep and which are just words. and that's a good thing this is as well and it's a catastrophe shocking horrible the evening before joy and despair for germany's conservatives they lost significant support this time around but chancellor angela merkel will still serve a fourth term she says she'd wished for a better result but she will still get to form a new government this isn't like the c.d.u. and c.s.u. have emerge

the far right alternative for germany but that's a move machall and every other german party has ruled out the f.t. for its part is ramping up its rhetoric against the chancellor. of the as we are clearly the third strongest party the german government whatever way it is formed should dress warmly. we will hunt them. we will hunt mrs merican or whoever we will take our country and our people back again . so we go in. and promises like that only underscore the importance at the coming coming. let's bring in chris brogan european here from berlin for university is a political analyst there chris christie christophe's just talked to christopher christoph tell us about the possibility for chancellor merkel cobbling together what appears to be a rather unlikely coalition between four very different parties indeed it does seem unlikely it is going to be difficult. we have seen this kind of to make a coalition at the state level already we've seen it twice once it failed we now have it. and it seems to be going ok so there are some positions where maybe overlap is in fact possible then said he was quite

f.t. and right wing parties in general get like a high percentage in german states so they are more to say they are also gap like high percentages and some like economically not so well off areas in the west of germany but most of the bases in the eastern. part of germany definitely and because he said like you see something that you already saw there unification electra two decades ago does that leave partly true because you had like in the early nineties like like real like like like some kind of uprisings and like people burning down refugee shelters and stuff like that and even refugees dying from like attacks and this is like what happened over the last two years is pretty much the the biggest aggression against like migrants and like that has been happening germany for twenty years now and i think gave east like like what roland said before like capitalizing on like a shift in the political system in germany and like a lot of people who are not not happy with like being and like precarious jobs and stuff like that but also they are they are really good at like getting everyone who ha

parliament will stay as it was behind the scenes power plays and party leaders sounding each other out the first bombshell came from the f.t. as one of the leaders of the far right party walked out of its news conference. i had decided not to be part of the f.t.'s parliamentary group but to sit independently in parliament for the time being. petrie is unlikely to be the last in the f.t. to distance themselves from the extreme right elements within their own party but chancellor angle of merkel is facing bigger problems after the social democrats ruled out forming a grand coalition with her conservatives a three way partnership with the business friendly liberal democrats and the environmentalist greens seems the only possibility even if it still smiles in public their political outlooks remain worlds apart they are likely to demand a heavy price for making any compromises meanwhile the bavarian christian socialists the c.d.u. sister party are also threatening to quit their alliance with merkel's conservatives unless their demands are met. as. you can my view it's absolutely essential that we set out a clear commitment to s

f.t. because they think that the opposition party will meet their demands but the f.t. is a neo liberal party like the free democratic party is but also racist this will help no one in germany it will not be good for retired people or ethnic russians or workers or the unemployed on the contrary they have a neo liberal program and the left thought is very different from them we want to bring minimum wages to twelve year olds in our we don't want jobs that often minimal pay and minimal hours we want all working people to be able to live well we want good and stable relations with russia we don't want nato to exist because nato is the source of instability so it is an aggressive alliance i think it is possible but we need to have a strong presence in the parliament so we can make a difference mr noir thank you very much for the interview my pleasure. syria paradoxically. parties and was a situation like israel and palestine is not a country where i meet a lot of people with told though everybody agrees. is a very serious situation people have been much more than in any othe

sticking power because what's already become apparent is that all of the other parties have say they will not work with the f.t. and that will certainly be the case all of the other parties were on side with merkel when it came to refugee policy and i think that a lot of the public as well for a lot of the public the a.f.d. is toxic every time there's an a.f.p. rally or a speech you only need to go so far to see all the counter protesters and i think for a lot of german voters who are very aware of their identity in the world you know the fact that the f.t. did win seats in the bundestag will galvanize them to show that the a.f.p. does not speak for germany because inevitably they will know that this will grab headlines around the world and a quick thought about the coalition that anglo-american now has to form it could take a matter of weeks couldst but it's you know you pretty much all set. it's going to make a coalition or it could take a matter of months coalition building is the name of the game in germany i think that. both merkel and the s.p.d. did not want to go into another grand coalition because the

party now mr. opposite poles to the f.t. . you know yes. because there isn't. a. party that thinks in terms of racism if you want and xenophobia. and to fortress europe and all the rest of it this is something we need to combat so i would like to thank everybody who has made this evening possible first of all all of our voters all of us supports. this dunka. junko. bank over sixty thousand members. really demonstrated strong nerves and a strong commitment to the last four years so thank you thanks to all of. you down. and i don't like to thank you and i mean it i want to thank my friends from the committee thank you your great c.m. it was always great to work with you. on. the not too early. for that. oh my. my my family are my friends. who had to do without me such a lot. in the run up to this election. right now. being given by the head of the f.t.p. there mr lennard you heard it right there. and we're going to go over now to see you had quarters there is the german chancellor angela merkel as we said things are moving quickly right now on this election night her

nations protest against aquaculture but we begin in germany after last week's election the f.t. a far right party has its first seats in the bundestag we visited the war valley long considered a stronghold of the social democrats. the city of essen is this politician's home town but since the german election karl-heinz and a social democrat says he doesn't recognize it anymore in the past his party usually won an easy majority but this time just twenty eight percent many of its neighbors told him in advance that they were voting for the far right a.f.d. party instead of his his income of people tell me they come from a family that's always voted s.p.d. but they went with the far right because they felt we needed to wake up we have to win back of voters if we just sit around and white for four years that's not going to happen. you talk of it. and is it pains to find out how to get his constituents back in his camp at least the blue collar contingent in his neighborhood pub he runs into supporters of the far right that only i would have voted for the f.t. too but you know what i threw away my palat

rival the social democrats but a lot of people are really worried about which party will be number three and the police but the f.t. the far right parties could be the third party you raised this issue with the chancellor what did you say to you well she said very explicitly that she's not going to work with you if to you she said it really not going to work with you this is pretty huge but indeed it is possible that the f.t. becomes the leader of the opposition and that means many rights you know for example they could open some debates they have special you know rights through to to lead parliament to parliamentarian groups so that i'm pretty sure would really change our culture our political culture in germany if they really would become the third biggest party but let me melinda if you can fill in that you find reflected there as well that people are worried about the rise of the far right in this election. yes i did hear that concern from several people they say they certainly would not like to see the f.t. become the third largest party in germany but they have another concern as well many of the people i sp

was the largest party with a little over thirty three percent of the vote the f.t. was the second largest party with a little over eighteen percent of the vote so how did the f.t. manage a success like that well we were actually at a an election party a regional party here last night and we heard when the leading candidates life they call him a thanking his supporters and fellow party members for their concerted efforts in getting the vote out and you really saw that you know everywhere within the city but also on the outskirts the a.f.d. was the best represented party in terms of election campaigning leading up to this vote and what they did if you look at the campaign posters that they put up everywhere they really played on voters' fears if you look at the polls from last night all the people who cast their ballots for the f.t. mentioned that there they had fears they were afraid of changing society in germany something we heard from your guest changing culture but also of the rise of terrorism and the f.t. seem to successfully play on those fears sara one of thos