Exit polls in Germany show the centre-right CDU/CSU bloc with a clear lead in European parliamentary elections, with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) taking second place. The polls, released just after polls closed in Germany on Sunday evening, showed Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition doing poorly, with his Social Democrats (SPD) and his primary coalition partners, the Greens, both trailing the AfD. Scholz’s SPD slipped to 14%, according to forecasts from public broadcasters ZDF and ARD. That would be the worst result in a nationwide election for the centre-left SPD, which has hist…