All right, I am here with Alexander Merkiris.

We are in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia.

And today, Alexander, we're going to talk about the elections in Germany in Brandenburg.

So my first question to you is, what are your thoughts about the elections?

Well, I think the first thing to say is that the IFTA did very well,

and Sao Vargaenek's party, again, have done extremely well.

It's a new party, and it's surged, and it's managed to come third.

And if you actually look at the overall result, basically the Sbedee, Olau Schultz party,

they eked out a win, but they did so once more by basically consolidating the entire establishment

vote, because the IFTA almost got the same amount as they did.

So really, it is another defeat for the German establishment.

Now, can I just say a few things about Brandenburg?

Because this is the most interesting area of Germany.

It's basically the territory around Berlin. It is the core of the old kingdom

of Prussia. The king of Prussia, people that we know who eventually united Germany,

originally they were the Magraves, the Marquesses of Brandenburg. That was their original core territory.

Now, so it's very historic. It's a place of castles and estates and small towns. It's very much,

as I said, the area of, it's very Prussian.

It is also historically been politically,

very, very much on the left.

It's an oddity about German politics,

but going way back to the, before the First World War,

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