German hand-right AFD set to win state election<br /><br />Germany's anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) is celebrating a "historic success", with a big victory for the far-right party in the eastern state of Thuringia.<br /><br />The AfD won almost a third of the vote, nine points ahead of the conservative CDU, and far in front of Germany's three governing parties.<br /><br />The result gives the far right its first win in a state parliament election since World War Two, although it has little hope of forming a government in Thuringia because other parties are unlikely to work with it.<br /><br />The AfD came a close second in Sunday's other big state election, in the more populous neighbouring state of Saxony.<br /><br />Results there gave the CDU 31.9% of the vote, just ahead of the AfD, again far ahead of the three parties running the national government - the Social Democrats, Greens and liberal FDP.<br />#germanelection #stateelection #germanafd<br />
