Thuringia is the eastern state where Alternative for Germany (AfD), which was created in 2013 with an anti-immigration and eurosceptic agenda, garnered the most votes.
The party received 32.8% of the vote, with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), a center-right group of mainstream conservatives, coming in second with 23.6%.
Since the Second World War, this is the first time a far-right party has taken the majority of seats in the German state parliament.
But rival parties will almost certainly keep the AfD out of power.
Additionally, AfD did well in Saxony, a neighboring state, coming in second to the CDU by only half a percentage point, according to the news.
The largest opposition party nationally and the party that has ruled Saxony since German reunification more than 30 years ago, the CDU, looked certain to win 32% of the state’s vote.
But he snapped at the question, saying, “Please stop stigmatising me,” when it was brought up that his local party branch is officially under monitoring by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency as a “proven right-wing extremist” organization. We are Thuringia’s most popular party.
