Anti-refugee parties push Germany's governing party into third place in state elelction
BBC:
Angela Merkel's ruling CDU party has been beaten into third place by an anti-immigrant and anti-Islam party in elections in a north-eastern German state, partial results have shown.Here is one of the posters from an anti-refugee party:
The Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) party took about 21% of the vote behind the centre-left SPD's 30%.
The German chancellor's CDU was backed by only about 19% of those who voted, according to the partial results.
The vote was seen as a key test before German parliamentary elections in 2017.
Before the vote in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, all of Germany's other parties ruled out forming a governing coalition with the AfD.
However, the party's strong showing could weaken Mrs Merkel ahead of the national elections next year.
'Rapefugee' message in Rostock as AfD challenges Merkel
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The AfDis is also not happy about the EU. Merkel will probably have a tough time in the next countrywide election.
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