An election campaign poster shows Robert Sesselmann of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the candidate who won a vote on Sunday to become a district leader in Europe’s biggest economy for the first time, a breakthrough for the party which has hit record highs in national polls, and runner-up Juergen Koepper of the conservative Christian Democratic Union party CDU, in Sonneberg, Germany, June 26, 2023. Reuters/Max Schwarz