The far-right will be vying to seize its first taste of power in Germany since the Second World war on Sunday as voters head to the polls in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt.
A win for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party - which was polling at 40 per cent in the build up to Sunday’s vote – could spell an historic shift in German politics after years of cooperation between the other parties to keep the hard right out of power.
