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However, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned against cooperating with the anti-immigration party.

Voters in the German state of Thuringia went to the polls on Sunday, making the right-wing Alternative für Deutschland the largest party.

A far-right party has not been the largest party in any election in Germany since World War II.

The party also won in the neighbouring Saxony state, where it became the second-largest party.

AfD leader in Thuringia Björn Höcke said it was good political practice to allow the largest party to invite other parties to government talks, adding: "We want to lead, and as the largest party, we have the right to lead."

Germany's Social Democrat Chancellor Olaf Scholz has warned against cooperating with the AfD in two states. He wrote on Facebook last night: "I call on all democratic parties to form stable governments without right-wing extremists."

He also described the election results in Thuringia and Saxony yesterday as "painful" and "worrying," just as he accused the AfD of harming Germany.

However, the leader of the Saxon branch of the Christian conservative CDU said today that it was not impossible for the CDU and AfD to find common ground.

The AfD won around 33 percent of the vote in Thuringia and around 31 percent in Saxony.