New survey hammer: Wagenknecht party swallows the traffic lights in the east. Ex-left-wing politician's new party achieved double-digit results in election surveys in East Germany.
If current poll numbers remained, there would be no government coalition in Thuringia or Brandenburg from autumn onwards without one of the two parties as a coalition partner. There have been renewed calls for rapid ban against the AfD on the basis of xenophobic plans of part of the party.