It is seen as a slap in the face for Angela Merkel. The election result in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern saw the chancellor’s conservatives slumping into third place – behind the populist right-wing Alternative for Germany party (AfD).<br /><br />Our guests:<br /><br />Ulrike Herrmann is a business editor at the Berlin daily taz. <br />Malte Lehming is the opinion editor at Der Tagesspiegel newspaper. <br />Janosch Delcker has reported on the Mecklenburg election for Politico. <br /><br />For more Quadriga, go to: http://www.dw.com/en/program/quadriga/s-7296-9798
