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Members of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD) party clap and cheer in the state of Brandenburg after exit polls show their party holds a narrow lead over the far-right party AfD party in regional elections. "I'm glad," says Dietmar Woidke, the SPD's popular state premier in Brandenburg, the region which surrounds Berlin. "It seems that once again, as so often in history, it was social democrats who stopped extremists on their way to power." IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES