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Opinion polls in the eastern German state of Saxony show the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) running head-to-head with the centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) ahead of September’s state parliamentary elections. According to a poll published on Thursday by the polling agency Infratest dimap on behalf of regional public broadcaster MDR, the AfD currently has 30% of possible votes, closely followed by the CDU with 29%. Another opinion poll conducted by Insa for several newspapers in Saxony and released on Wednesday also found a neck-and-neck race between the AfD (32%) and CDU (30%) is …

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