After a poor showing in exit polls, Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) are bracing for “a very bitter result” in European parliamentary elections, the party’s general secretary said on Sunday evening. “This is a tough defeat for us today,” the SPD’s Kevin Kühnert told public broadcaster ARD. Exit polls from broadcasters ARD and ZDF released just after 6 pm (1600 GMT) put the centre-left SPD in third place in the European Parliament elections at 14%, which would be the party’s worst performance in a democratic German nationwide election. Kühnert declined to blame the SPD’s leading figure, Chancel…