All right, Alexander, let's talk about the German elections that took place yesterday.

And the results are shocking but predictable.

Ayevde winning in Thuringia, coming in second slightly behind the CDU.

And the only reason that the Avede appears to have come in second place in Saxony is because the

support was thrown to the CDU in order to prevent AIFD from winning, not because the

CDU had had the support to come in first place.

It was more of a preventive measure to stop IAFD from winning in Saxony as well.

But a historic day in Germany, what are your thoughts?

Absolutely, a historic day.

I mean, we are talking about two regions of Germany.

I mean, they're not the most populous or the most economically developed regions in Germany.

I mean, putting aside that they're East German regions, but they are, I mean, if we're talking

about Thuringia, Thuringia is seen by many people as a kind of cultural heartland of Germany. It contains

many of the most beautiful and scenic areas of Germany. It also contains places that, you know,

intellectual powerhouses of Germany like Weimar and Erfurt, places of this kind. And of course, Saxony, as a major region within the former

East Germany, major economic centre, the two great cities of Leipzig and Dresden are located

in Saxony. So what we've seen in these two German states is the collapse of the established

parties. The SPD, the Liberals, the Greens, they've done shockingly badly. The Greens and the Liberals will no longer be represented, apparently, in the parliaments of

either of these two states.

The SPD's just clinging on.

It's just got minimal representation in Saxony, and it's seen it fall even further in Thuringia.

At an immediate political level, it's clear that I think Chancellor Schultz's coalition government

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