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Election campaign of the German far-right party Alternative to Germany (AFD) in Dresden, Germany, August 25, 2019. REUTERS / Hannibal Hanschke

Germany's far-right has seen a strong boost on Sunday 1 September in two regional elections in the former GDR, more than doubling its scores in previous polls in 2014, according to preliminary estimates of public television.

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) reached 27.5% of the vote in Saxony, behind Chancellor Angela Merkel's Conservatives (CDU) (32%), according to estimates. In Brandenburg (around Berlin), the far-right party gets 22.5%, ahead of the Social Democrats (SPD, 27.5%).

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(With AFP)