02:39Germany: We are the 'big winner' of Thuringia elections - AfD co-chair
The far right Alternative for Germany (AfD) considered themselves the “big winner" of the state elections in Thuringia, according to AfD co-chair Jorg Meuthen at a press conference in Berlin on Monday.
"We doubled in Brandenburg, and nearly tripled in Saxony, and more than doubled now in Thuringia. This means we are the big winner of yesterday’s election night in Thuringia, as well as in the state elections in the east as a whole,” said Meuthen.
For the main candidate in Thuringia, Bjorn Hocke, the AfD is the “new vital people’s party of the east” and will be developed “as a young, vital people’s party of entire Germany in the next years.”
Touching on the recent court rule that allows one to call Hocke a “fascist” without fearing being sued, AfD’s co-chair Alexander Gauland said it to be “nonsense.”
“When you bring up this issue again and again, although I feel I have commented a thousand times on it and there are no new insights on it, then this is systematic mobbing,” added Hocke when speaking to the journalists.
Exit polls show the AfD to have narrowly beaten the Christian Democrat party (CDU) with 24 per cent against the CDU's 22 per cent. The left-wing 'Die Linke' party is projected to emerge in front, taking home 30 per cent of the vote with their coalition partners the Social Democrat Party (SPD) losing a large amount of support and emerging with 8 per cent, making the prospect of another coalition difficult
02:39The far right Alternative for Germany (AfD) considered themselves the “big winner" of the state elections in Thuringia, according to AfD co-chair Jorg Meuthen at a press conference in Berlin on Monday.
"We doubled in Brandenburg, and nearly tripled in Saxony, and more than doubled now in Thuringia. This means we are the big winner of yesterday’s election night in Thuringia, as well as in the state elections in the east as a whole,” said Meuthen.
For the main candidate in Thuringia, Bjorn Hocke, the AfD is the “new vital people’s party of the east” and will be developed “as a young, vital people’s party of entire Germany in the next years.”
Touching on the recent court rule that allows one to call Hocke a “fascist” without fearing being sued, AfD’s co-chair Alexander Gauland said it to be “nonsense.”
“When you bring up this issue again and again, although I feel I have commented a thousand times on it and there are no new insights on it, then this is systematic mobbing,” added Hocke when speaking to the journalists.
Exit polls show the AfD to have narrowly beaten the Christian Democrat party (CDU) with 24 per cent against the CDU's 22 per cent. The left-wing 'Die Linke' party is projected to emerge in front, taking home 30 per cent of the vote with their coalition partners the Social Democrat Party (SPD) losing a large amount of support and emerging with 8 per cent, making the prospect of another coalition difficult