Landmark victory for far-right AfD party in eastern German state of Thuringia

Germany's far-right AfD party took between 30.5 percent and 33.5 percent of the vote in elections in the eastern state of Thuringia, according to exit polls, marking the first time in Germany’s post-World War II history that an extreme-right party has won a state election. The conservative CDU came in second place with around 24.5 percent of the vote.