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The 2 September exit polls in Germany suggest a far right party has won a regional state election for the first time since the nazi era.
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This and his friendliness towards humans sparked rumors the mammal had been trained by the russian navy as a spy whale the mysterious death of a young whale allegedly recruited by the Russians a far right party is on course to win a state parliamentary election in Germany for the first time since the Nazis.
According to exit polls, the AfD, or alternative for Deutschland, looks set to become the biggest party in Thuringia, while coming a close second in Saxony.
Both states are in the former East Germany and a fertile ground for the partys anti immigration, anti Islam message.
The regional elections came just over a week after a mass stabbing by a suspected islamist in the Germane of Zurlingen.
Bjorn Hoerke, controversial head of the AfD in Thuringia, hailed what he called a historic result.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, and then you win.
And today, dear friends, we have wondez.
Despite its victory, the AfD may struggle to find coalition partners, but the result is another sign of how voters are abandoning the center ground.
With a new far left party coming third in both states, it is a significant blow to the governing SPD and other mainstream parties in Germany.
Nils Schmidt is the social democratic Partys spokesman on foreign affairs.
I think this is a rather new challenge to german democracy because for many years most Germans trusted democracy to work things out.
And for the first time, at least since I'm active in politics, we see large parts of german society just dropping out of the democratic discourse and of the workings of the democratic system.
But what has attracted voters to the AfD?