Ten years after its creation, Germany's far-right AfD party scored a major success on Sunday by winning an election for the first time in a district (Landkreis) in Thuringia. The movement's candidate won nearly 53% of the vote against his Christian Democrat competitor supported by all the other parties. "Alarm bell", "black day for democracy" are words that often come up in the many reactions. The president of the German Jewish community Josef Schuster said that "every AfD voter is not an extremist, but this party and its candidate clearly are"
A candidate from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won a local leadership post for the first time on Sunday in a resounding victory for a group whose anti-migrant, Euroskeptic and anti-Muslim agenda is under surveillance by German authorities.
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A candidate from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won a local leadership post for the first time on Sunday in a resounding victory for a group whose anti-migrant, Euroskeptic and anti-Muslim agenda is under surveillance by German authorities.