Hundreds of protesters gathered in the north-eastern German town of Jüterborg on Saturday as the Berlin branch of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) picked its leader for next year’s parliamentary election. The anti-immigration party chose Beatrix von Storch to lead its list of candidates in the German capital for September’s elections to the Bundestag, the country’s lower house. Von Storch, the party’s deputy parliamentary leader in the Bundestag, previously led the AfD’s campaign in Berlin in the 2017 and 2021 elections and received support from 87% of conference attendees to run ag…