'SPD wins, AfD exceed CDU '

- Governing party SPD has come out on top despite loss of votes as the winner in the forecasts about the outcome of the elections in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The party Alternative for Germany (AfD) did for the first time in elections in the state and has become the second party in the forecasts.

thus the AfD gets into the exit polls by broadcasters ARD and 21 percent more votes than the CDU of Chancellor Angela Merkel, which gets 19 percent of the vote. The turnout was higher than in the previous state elections when 51.5 percent of the electorate went to vote.