An anti-immigration party has overtaken German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling CDU party in her home state, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Election results show Alternative for Germany, or AFD, won 21 percent of votes, about two percent more than the CDU.
Al Jazeera’s Dominic Kane reports from Schwerin.
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