PoliticsGermany’s far-right AfD makes history again in Saxony-Anhalt

For the first time since World War II, a German state parliament has elected a representative of a party classified as right-wing extremist as its speaker. AfD lawmaker Tobias Rausch won 48 votes in Saxony-Anhalt, while about 500 people demonstrated in Magdeburg against cooperation with the far right.

German politicsAfDSaxony-Anhaltstate parliament

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