What far-right AfD’s district election win means for Germany
ALJAZEERA /mit Axel Salheiser
Alternative for Germany’s victory leads to an outpouring of despair and recrimination from other parties and civil groups ahead of next year’s state elections. Axel Salheiser, director of research at the Institute for Democracy and Civil Society in Jena, told Al Jazeera that the result in the Sonneberg run-off has “a highly symbolic political effect”.