Residents in the German city of Erfurt, in the state of Thuringia, are mixed in their reaction to the far-right AfD's success in a regional election. On Sunday 1 September, the party came out on top in the former East German state, securing around 33 percent of the vote. In the nearby state of Saxony, the AfD came a close second, just missing out to the conservative CDU party.
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00:00Thank you. Have fun.
00:16Migration for me? Too many, too many, too many.
00:21They can get the money out of the stock market.
00:25And for us pensioners, the lower pensions have to go up.
00:28They all have to go up. And the energy.
00:30These are the issues that burn us.
00:32These are the issues that burn us.
00:35So, we as students or as a big city, Jena, here in Thuringia,
00:39we are actually for a very open-minded Thuringia.
00:42We want Germany to be there for everyone.
00:44We also want to set an example as a federal state,
00:47especially as the East, which has also declined a bit in Germany since the reunification.
00:55What do you think about the possibility of a coalition with the AfD?
01:01To be honest, I don't know yet.
01:04Because at the moment it looks like the AfD is not going to govern alone.
01:09Or rather, a coalition is being formed, but no one wants to coalition with the AfD.
01:14That's why, to be honest, I can't say that yet,
01:17until a government is determined how this will work out.
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