Far-right German party set for regional election triumph

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) was projected to win a strong victory in a regional election on Sunday, but it was not immediately clear whether it would be able to fulfil its ambition of forming the country’s first far-right state government since the Second World War.

The party of German’s unpopular leader, Chancellor Friedrich Merz, was set for a disastrous result in the the eastern state of Saxony-Anhal...