Leader of AfD Alice Weidel, praised her party's best-ever national election result following the exit polls - dubbing it as "historic".
Alice Weidel (AfD): The leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany has propelled her party to its strongest showing in history.
Germany's electoral system rarely gives any party an absolute majority and opinion polls suggest that no party is anywhere near one this time.
Weidel predicted that if the CDU continued to refuse to work with her party to "implement the will of the people", the AfD would "overtake" them in the next election, expected four years from now.
AfD became the first far-right party to win a state election in post-World War II Germany in Thuringia in September.
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