A few days before the election to the regional parliament in the state of Brandenburg surrounding Berlin, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) remained in first place in a new survey published on Tuesday. The AfD would achieve 28% of the vote ahead of the previously dominant centre-left Social Democratic Party’s (SPD) 25%, according to a survey by the opinion research institute INSA on behalf of the local newspapers Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung, Märkische Oderzeitung and Lausitzer Rundschau. This means that state premier and top SPD candidate Dietmar Woidke, who has been in office for 1…