by Ana Ribeiro
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern will have its state parliamentary elections on 4 September, which could bring more seats for the AfD at the helm of German politics. A reporter and documentary filmmaker is setting out to try to discover why people in the northern state are voting for the right-wing party.
Raphael Thelen and his team have been travelling through German states to take a deeper look into why right-wing, foreigner-excluding movements, such as the political party AfD, have been making such gains in the country presently. After Saxony, it is time to travel through Mecklenburg-Vorpommern for…