Germany’s far right is on course to win the most votes in a state election for the first time since the Nazis, in a major rebuke of Chancellor Olaf Scholz ruling center-left coalition.

Projections from public broadcasters ARD and ZDF based on exit polls suggest that the anti-immigration, nationalist party Alternative for Germany, or AfD, has finished first in the east German state of Thuringia, securing about 31-33% of the vote.

The Christian Democratic party, Germany’s second largest…