The federal chairwoman of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), Alice Weidel, has hailed the projected outcome of state elections in Thuringia and Saxony as an historic victory for her party. At the same time, it is a punishment for the federal government coalition in Berlin, Weidel told public broadcaster ARD on Sunday. “It is a requiem for this coalition,” Weidel said, referring to the government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz that consists of his centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), the Greens and the liberal Free Democrats (FDP). The SPD, the Greens and FDP would now have to ask themselve…