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What's the mood in Erfurt ahead of state elections?

Voters in the German state of Thuringia are set to head for the polls in an election that shows the far-right AfD on course to take up the number two position behind the post-communist Left party. DW's Anja Koch went to Erfurt to gauge the mood there.

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