Germany's populist / nationalist anti-immigration Alternativ fur Deutschland (AfD) has been running as the second largest party in the country in multiple polls for the last few months, crossing the line of 20% support nationally and being the most popular party of all in the eastern states. Now it has made a critical breakthrough in winning control of its first local government at the district level.
Germany's state and local elections are scattered throughout the year, but it was the runoff in the Thuringian district of Sonneberg yesterday that captured national attention. Sonneberg's incumbent district administrator, a member of the traditional conservative Christian Democratic Union was soundly defeated by challenger Robert Sesselman of the populist nationalist anti-immigration AfD by vote of 52.8% to 47.2%. It is the first AfD victory giving control of a unit of local government. After Sesselman led in the first round, all the other major parties called upon their members to vote for the CDU incumbent in the runoff to stop the AfD, but this tactic failed.
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/afd-scores-historic-victory-for-german-conservatives/
Thuringia has its state election next year, as does (at different times) Saxony, and Brandenburg, all in eastern Germany, and the AfD leads in the polls in all of them.
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