Following AfD’s victory in Thuringia, race in one of smallest German states in terms of population becomes focus of attention. ZDF projection puts SPD at 32%, AfD at 29% 17:09 A second exit poll,

Germans in the state of Brandenburg were voting in a regional election on Sunday with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) expected to finish first, building on successes in other eastern states and beating Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats in one of their traditional strongholds.

The polls in Brandenburg state have been closely watched because Scholz’s SPD has ruled there ever since Germany’s 1990 reunification and because the chancellor’s electoral district is in the state capital Potsdam,