Polls opened on Sunday morning for some 2.1 million eligible voters in Brandenburg, the state surrounding Berlin. All eyes are on whether the far right will secure the most support for the second time in a month, or if the Social Democrats (SPD) will come out on top. The SPD is the party of the beleaguered Chancellor Olaf Scholz, but also of Brandenburg’s popular state leader, Dietmar Woidke. Brandenburg is the only state in former East Germany to be continually ruled since 1990 by the SPD, although it has governed in coalitions with different parties. The AfD is classified by the domestic int…