The new state parliament in the central German state of Thuringia convened for the first time on Thursday following elections in which the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) made historic gains. Initial sessions are expected to be turbulent, as the AfD has vowed to enforce its new-found prerogatives as the largest single party with more than a third of the total seats. But the other parties in the Thuringian parliament – the centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU), the populist Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), the hard-left Die Linke (The Left) and the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) -…