German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) were facing a new kind of dilemma on Monday after a narrow win in elections in the eastern state of Brandenburg left them with only two possible coalition partners. The centre-left party’s leadership meanwhile used the victory to try and ease concerns about the SPD’s chances in federal elections in a year’s time. The SPD snatched victory from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Brandenburg, after a remarkable poll run that saw them close a gap of five to six percentage points in just a few months. However, the party which has le…