Top candidate Ulrich Siegmund how's thumbs up beside party leaders Tino Chrupalla and Alice Weidel, from left, at an election party of the "Alternative for Germany" (AfD) after the Saxony-Anhalt state elections in Magdeburg, eastern Germany, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader) MAGDEBURG, Germany — The far-right Alternative for Germany was projected to win a strong victory in a regional election Sunday, but it wasn’t immediately clear whether it would be able to fulfill its ambition of forming the country’s first far-right state government since World War II.The party of German’s unpopular leader, Chancellor Friedrich Merz, was set for...