PoliticsGermany: Did CDU lawmakers support the far-right AfD?

Speculation is growing that some CDU lawmakers secretly backed AfD politician Tobias Rausch’s election as speaker of Saxony-Anhalt’s parliament. The SPD called the possible support a “unique breach of taboos,” reopening debate over the CDU’s firewall against cooperation with the far right.

German politicsCDUAfDSaxony-Anhalt

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