The AfD's main candidate in Thuringia Bjoern Hoecke gives interviews to the media, reacting to the far-right party's victory in the regional election, with exit polls showing it with around 32 percent of the vote. "As the strongest party, we will of course invite others to talks," he says, after a vote that places the AfD ahead of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's conservative CDU in the central region. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES