Anne-Sylvain Chastany

So it's interesting.

So the AfD, contrary to other right-wing populist movements in Europe, it does not feel the need to go mainstream.

Actually, it's classified as extremist by the intelligence agencies here in Germany.

What's happening is that for the first time, they could win a state, a federal state.

So Germany has 16 federal states and there's one, Saxony and Harz, which is holding elections in September.

And for the first time, they could have a regional prime minister.

They could control the regional parliament.

And that would be unprecedented.

The prime minister would be able to sit on the upper house, the Bundesrat.

And yeah, this would be a big, big political earthquake, even though we're talking about a very small state, two million people out of 84 million, you know, in total.