STUTTGART, Germany – Germany’s long-feared political earthquake has finally arrived: For the first time since World War II, a far-right political movement has scored an electoral victory in one of the country’s component states.
With all the ballots in the Sept 1 election in the German state of Thuringia now counted, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) won 32.8 per cent of the vote, trouncing Germany’s mainstream parties.
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