Frank-Christian Hansel

the entire vote share, winning their first state premiership, but for months now they have been riding high in national opinion polls too, as the country's most popular party.

What does this mean for historically unpopular Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his centre-right CDU? And could this be the start of the AFD path to ruling Germany? Well, joining me to discuss this is the author John Kampfner, Frank Christian Hansel is a member of the Berlin Parliament for the AFD.

Javier Carbone is an analyst at the European Policy Centre.

And Ed Turner is co-director for the Centre for Europe at Aston University.