Germany’s Social Democrats have won a narrow victory in elections in the eastern state of Brandenburg, an unexpected reprieve for Olaf Scholz as he prepares to run for a second term as chancellor next year.
Preliminary official results put Scholz’s SPD at 30.9 per cent, ahead of the far-right Alternative for Germany with 29.2 per cent.
They suggest the SPD can continue to govern Brandenburg, a state that the party has ruled since German reunification in 1990 and which has long been seen as one of its national strongholds.
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