PoliticsState parliament elects Germany’s first far-right speaker since second world war
The far-right Alternative for Germany has secured a regional parliament speaker post for the first time since the second world war. Tobias Rausch won election as president and speaker of Saxony-Anhalt’s parliament with 48 of 82 votes, while Hans-Thomas Tillschneider, from the party’s more extreme wing, was later elected deputy.
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State parliament elects Germany’s first far-right speaker since second world war
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