Germany grapples with far-right surge as AfD wins state election
The far-right AfD party alone won a third of the votes in two eastern German states on Sunday, as residents of Thuringia and Saxony begin to take stock of the results.
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00:00Far-right party Alternative for Germany managed to win a third of the votes in two East German states on Sunday.
00:06Parties in Saxony and Thuringia will begin talks to form a state government.
00:11Thuringia residents were too skeptical of the media to speak on camera,
00:14but told Euronews that their votes for the AfD were a last resort.
00:30Parties in Saxony and Thuringia were too skeptical of the media to speak on camera,
00:34but told Euronews that their votes for the AfD were a last resort.
00:37Parties in Saxony and Thuringia were too skeptical of the media to speak on camera,
00:40but told Euronews that their votes for the AfD were a last resort.
00:43Parties in Saxony and Thuringia were too skeptical of the media to speak on camera,
00:46but told Euronews that their votes for the AfD were a last resort.
00:49Parties in Saxony and Thuringia were too skeptical of the media to speak on camera,
00:52but told Euronews that their votes for the AfD were a last resort.
00:55Parties in Saxony and Thuringia were too skeptical of the media to speak on camera,
00:58but told Euronews that their votes for the AfD were a last resort.
01:09Over in Saxony, voters expressed their shock that AFD and BSV managed to get so many votes.
01:40As the far-right party Alternative for Germany celebrates their historic win in the Turing estate elections,
01:47several hundred marched through the streets of Erfurt last night and several shed tears
01:52as this is the first time a far-right party has won estate elections since Nazi rule in Germany.
01:59Several Erfurt residents told me yesterday that the reason that they voted for AFD
02:05was because they were concerned about safety after knife attacks have dominated the headlines for the past few months.
02:12Even if the AFD doesn't manage to form a coalition,
02:17it's clear that other parties will begin to adopt stricter policies in a bid to win back disillusioned voters.