Sunday, 31 August 2014

German anti-euro party enters 1st state assembly

In this Aug. 21, 2014 file picture a small plane carries a banner during an election campaign of the German 'Alternative fuer Deutschland' AfD party in Grimma, Saxony State, Germany. The party that wants Germany to ditch the euro currency is tipped to win its first seat in a state assembly Sunday Aug. 31, 2014. A recent poll conducted for public broadcaster ZDF predicts that the party Alternative for Germany will receive seven percent of the vote in elections for the Saxony state parliament. This would be enough for the party, which was founded only last year, to clear the five-percent hurdle needed to enter parliament Banner reads : Vote AfD. (AP Photo/dpa,Jan Woitas,file) BERLIN (AP) — A party that wants to ditch the euro currency in its current form was elected to one of Germany's state assemblies for the first time Sunday.








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