GERMANY-POLITICS-VOTE

AfD's (Alternative for Germany) Bjoern Hoecke answers journalists after the first exit polls during the AfD's election party on September 1, 2019 in Werder an der Havel near Potsdam, eastern Germany. - Voters went to the polls for state elections in Brandenburg and Saxony, two states in the ex-communist east. The election results could reverberate across German politics. For Chancellor Angela Merkel, an election debacle for either her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) or junior coalition partner the social democratic SPD would spell another threat to their uneasy coalition. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP) (Photo credit should read ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images)