A far-right politician from Germany's AfD is elected as speaker of a state parliament in Saxony-Anhalt
The election marked the first time a far-right extremist has held such a position in a German state since World War II. The AfD won 43.8 percent of the vote and secured 39 seats in the assembly.
- Tobias Rausch, a far-right AfD candidate, was elected president of the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament in a vote of 48 out of 82 deputies.
- Rausch received 48 votes from 82 eligible deputies in the election for the state parliament presidency.
- The state office for the protection of the constitution classifies the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt as 'secured right-wing extremist'.
- The AfD secured 39 seats in the assembly and received 43.8 percent of the votes in the state election.
- An AfD politician was elected president of a state parliament for the first time in Saxony-Anhalt, marking the first such election of a right-wing extremist in a German state since World War II.
- The CDU faction of 15 members announced it would abstain completely from voting in the election.
- Eva von Angern criticized the AfD and parliamentary conduct during the session.
- The seating arrangement of the political parties changed after the election.
- The AfD hopes to gain support from the BSW party.
- The AfD did not achieve an absolute majority in the election but defeated the conservative members of Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
- The AfD seeks to change parliamentary rules to allow for a vice president.
- The BSW supported Rausch with five votes in the election.
- Three of Tobias Rausch's siblings work for other AfD individuals.
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