The vote was viewed by political observers as a barometer for the AfD's popularity at a time when damaging headlines may have dented its alarming nationwide momentum.
The vote was the first since Correctiv, an investigative journalism outfit, published a report outlining a November meeting in which AfD politicians and far-right extremists including Austrian neo-Nazi Martin Sellner of the Identitarian Movement discussed plans for the mass deportation of foreigners and unassimilated German citizens should they come to power.
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