BERLIN: Germany's fledgling anti-euro party celebrated election gains in two eastern states Sunday (Monday in Manila), in a show of strength that spells a growing threat for Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives.

"We are the force that's renewing the political landscape," said a jubilant Bernd Lucke, leader of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), which wants Europe's biggest economy to scrap the euro and return to the Deutschmark currency.

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