Elections on Sept. 1 in Saxony and neighboring Brandenburg, two states in the former East Germany, have the entire country holding its breath. The far-right AfD is poised to do well, and the results could be historic.
Deutsche Welle: Why the state elections in eastern Germany are important
A woman walks past a detail from a graffito on a house, depicting a ballot box reading "In anger, man loses his intelligence" (a Dalai Lama quote) during state elections in Saxony on Sept. 1, 2019 in Dresden, eastern Germany.
