German Far-Right Set to Win First State Election Vote Since World War II
A far-right party is on track to win the most votes in a German election for the first time since the Second World War.
The radical Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), which ran on nativist anti-immigrant populism, led Sunday’s election in the east German state of Thuringia with as much as 33 percent of the vote, according to multiple exit polls. The center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) fell to second place with 24.5 percent.
AfD was also tracking a close second place in the neighboring state of Saxony, just over a percent behind the CDU.