2 minutes agoGermany's far-right alternative leads by vote, Scholzin leaves behind
Periskopi(2 years ago)
(2 years ago)Germany's far-right alternative won state elections for the first time Sunday in the east of the country, and was set to finish at least a second very close to the main conservatives in a second vote, projections showed. A new party founded by a prominent left also had [...]
A new party founded by a prominent left also had an immediate impact, while parties in the unpopular national government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz received extremely poor results, the AP reports.
Projections for Public Television The ARD and ZDF based on exit polls and partial count showed that the alternative for Germany won 32-33 per cent of the vote in Turingi long ahead of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union, the main national opposition party, by about 24 per cent.
