Top German politicians are making final campaign pushes ahead of key elections in two eastern German states on Sunday, Thuringia and Saxony, which will likely reverberate across the country. Chancellor Olaf Scholz, whose centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) are sputtering in the polls, joined the party’s top candidate in Saxony, Petra Köpping, for a rally on Friday in the city of Chemnitz. Polls show the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) with a clear lead in Thuringia. In Saxony, polls put the AfD behind the centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) – but within the margin of error. Both stat…