Blow for German right-wing party after election loss

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Controversial planThe district vote on Sunday was widely seen as a measure of civil society's mobilization against the anti-immigrant AfD, following the recent discovery of their deportation plan, The Guardian reported.
39% : Germany's right-wing party, Alternative for Deutschland, or AfD, has narrowly lost a regional election, its first test since a damning expose was published about its plans for governing and mass deportation of foreigners, which sparked massive protests nationwide.Polls prior to the district election, in Saale-Orla in the southeastern state of Thuringia on Sunday, had indicated the AfD was likely to secure its second local government mandate amid growing support for anti-immigration policies.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.