# State parliament elects Germany’s first far-right speaker since second world war

https://mins.news/en/item/88282

- The Guardian, 2026-10-06 15:38 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/06/germany-afd-first-far-right-tobias-rausch-speaker-since-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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