Far-right AfD wins local election in ‘watershed moment’ for German politics
by Kate Connolly in Berlin from on (#6CFQS)
Central Council of Jews says it is devastated by populist party's first victory in eastern town of Sonneberg
The far-right Alternative fur Deutschland has won a district council election in Germany for the first time, in what is being referred to as a watershed moment in the country's politics.
The eastern town of Sonneberg, in the state of Thuringia, elected Robert Sesselmann to the post of district administrator, the equivalent of a mayor, with 52.8% of the vote, ousting the Christian Democrats' (CDU) Jurgen Kopper on 47.2%.
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