The small German state of Thuringia has caused a political uproar in Berlin after the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party helped to elect the state's new premier.
Thomas Kemmerich from the liberal, pro-business Free Democratic Party , is the first mainstream German politician to have been elected with the help of the controversial, anti-immigration AfD party.
Describing it as a "political earthquake," ING Germany's Chief Economist Carsten Brzeski said "the shockwaves of today's events have already reached Berlin and are unlikely to ebb away quickly ... In our view, today's events do not represent a shift to the right but illustrate that German politics have become more fluid."
"Today's controversial election of a new minister president in the East German state of Thuringia will refuel tensions within the coalition and in Merkel's party," Carsten Nickel, deputy director of research at Teneo Intelligence, said in a note Wednesday. Thuringia, with just over 2 million inhabitants, was one of the first federal states where Adolf Hitler's National Socialist German Workers' Party gained power after an election in 1929.Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in Thuringia's main cities Wednesday evening to protest the election of Kemmerich, with the help of the AfD, and the hashtag #Dammbruch was trending on Twitter, reflecting shock among the public that mainstream parties had broken the pact.
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