Germany’s far-right AfD is landslide winner in eastern state vote, exit polls indicate

Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) won a landslide victory in a key regional election on Sunday in the ex-communist east, according to exit polls, but it remains unclear whether it can win an absolute majority to govern. “We have made history today,” said a jubilant Ulrich Siegmund, the 35-year-old lead candidate of the anti-immigration AfD in Saxony-Anhalt state, as the vote count continued. The AfD won at least 44 per cent, more than doubling its support, and far ahead of the...