Right-wing AfD party leads polls in eastern German state elections

BERLIN, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- The German right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is in the lead in a poll published on Thursday for the upcoming elections in three eastern German states in September.

In Saxony, the AfD, which has so far never been part of a state government in Germany, received 34 percent of the vote. Meanwhile, in Thuringia it won 36 percent, and in Brandenburg 32 percent, according to the