German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats will seek coalition talks with upstart left party BSW, as working with the far-right runner-up AfD has been ruled out. Follow DW for more.

Chancellor has lost his three-year-old hero factor in recent elections. He has even been dropped from SPD posters

The centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) appear headed for a narrow election victory over the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the eastern German state of Brandenburg, according to initial projected results.

How much of what we saw in Brandenburg over the weekend was a vote of confidence in the SPD, or was it more a kind of pushing away of the AfD? How are you interpreting it? Yeah. So listen, I mean, when the when you look at the actual results here,

Germans in the state of Brandenburg were voting in a regional election on Sunday with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) expected to finish first, building on successes in other eastern states and beating Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats in one of their traditional strongholds.

Scholz's Social Democrats celebrate likely winover far right in German state vote:: Potsdam, Germany:::: Dietmar Woidke, Social Democrat, Brandenburg State Premier“When an openly, in big parts and overall openly right-wing extremist party in our state scores around 30% of votes,

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD) were facing a new kind of dilemma on Monday after a narrow win in elections in the eastern state of Brandenburg left them with only two possible coalition partners.