Basketball clubs in Jena and Erfurt are having problems signing new players due to the political situation in their eastern German home state of Thuringia, coaches have said. State elections are set for September 1, and according to a latest Forsa poll the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is projected to garner 30% of the vote to become the strongest party, far ahead of the Christian Democrats and the populist Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance. Björn Harmsen, coach of second division Jena, told Thursday’s edition of the Thüringer Allgemeine paper that “the shift to the right and political deve…