As cities across Germany witness protests against right-wing extremism this weekend, the extreme Right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is poised to win its second district administrator position in East Thuringia on Sunday. In the rural Saale-Orla district near the Czech border, AfD candidate Uwe Thrum and Christian Democreatic Union (CDU) candidate Christian Herrgott will face each other in a run-off election. Thrum is the favourite, having won 45.7% of the vote in the first round of voting a fortnight ago, while Herrgott received just 33.3%. Last summer, Robert Sesselmann was the first AfD can…