In Thuringia there was a clear victory, with 32.8 percent, for the Alternative for Germany (AfD), its first such victory in all of Germany! This gives it first choice in forming a state government ...

which is less prosperous than western Germany. AfD is at its strongest in the formerly communist east, and the domestic intelligence agency has the party's branches in both Saxony and Thuringia ...

Thuringia and Germany,” he said at the campaign in Erfurt. That message is taking root in the fertile ground of Germany’s east, where voters told CNN they felt neglected by traditional parties.

AfD is at its strongest in the east ... one-third of the voters in Thuringia as right-wing extremist." Voters went to the polls on the 85th anniversary of Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland ...

"In particular, people are sick of the idea that this state has possibly lost control of migration and asylum in Germany," Lindner said. Saxony and Thuringia, and former East Germany more ...

The attack almost certainly sent additional votes the AfD’s way in Sunday’s elections in two states in Germany’s east. The alleged ... in the eastern state of Thuringia.

An election campaign poster of the far-right Alternative for Germany, AfD, showing the top candidate for Thuringia Bjoern Hoecke and the slogans " The East does it" and "Almost forbiddenly good ...

was born and grew up in Thuringia. The 46-year-old member of the Green party said that growing up in Communist East Germany, she was “always the only Black child.” As a teenager, she was never ...

When her state, Thuringia, holds elections on Sunday ... 22 — all in the former East Germany, where polls show such grievances are pushing many voters to the extremes, whether left or right.

Half of the story is the rise of Alternative for Germany (AfD), which won a plurality in Thuringia and finished ... with a substantial base in the former East Germany. It secured nearly a third ...