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At a typical international summit, the president of the United States tends to exert their own gravitational pull. World leaders clamour for a face-to-face interaction, while officials and reporters hang eagerly on the president’s words.

Even though incumbent state premier Dietmar Woidke of the Social Democrats won the Brandenburg elections by a small margin, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) won just shy of 29.2% of the votes. That made the far-right party the second-strongest in the Brandenburgstate assembly behind…