The party won 32.8% of the vote in Thuringia, followed by the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) with 23.6%.
A far-right party has won a regional election in Germany for the first time since the Second World War. Alternative for Germany , founded in 2013 with an anti-migration and eurosceptic agenda, picked up the most votes in the eastern state of Thuringia. The party won 32.8% of the vote, followed by mainstream conservatives the centre-right Christian Democratic Union with 23.6%. It is the first time a far-right party has won the most seats in a German state parliament since the Second World War.
Setback for German chancellor's coalition The far-right success is a blow to the coalition of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz just a year before the federal election in September 2025. Mr Scholz's Social Democratic Party currently governs nationally with the Greens and liberal Free Democrats . Those parties had weak results on Sunday. AfD is unlikely to be able to form a state government as it is short of a majority and other parties refuse to collaborate with it.
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