FILE PHOTO: A person informs himself for the upcoming Saxony state elections in Meissen, Germany, August 13, 2019. REUTERS/Matthias Rietschel/File Photo
MEISSEN, Germany (Reuters) - A surge in support for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party before regional elections next month in two former communist eastern states threatens to wreck Chancellor Angela Merkel's unwieldy right-left coalition government.
Merkel's conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) jointly run the state of Saxony, mirroring their coalition at the national level in Berlin. In neighbouring Brandenburg, the SPD governs along with the radical Left Party.
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