AfD lawmakers take their seats in unwelcoming Bundestag

From political newcomers to well-known right-wing extremists: these are – in short – all 152 members of the new AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag.

AfD lawmakers take their seats in unwelcoming Bundestag

The German parliament is off to a rocky start as Alternative for Germany, or AfD, lawmakers took their seats among rival politicians devoted to keeping the growing party out of the mainstream. Parliamentarians convened the first meeting of the new…

AfD lawmakers take their seats in unwelcoming Bundestag - Washington Examiner

The German parliament is off to a rocky start as Alternative for Germany, or AfD, lawmakers took their seats among rival politicians devoted to keeping the growing party out of the mainstream. Parliamentarians convened the first meeting of the new Bundestag with a speech from The Left party member Gregor Gysi, who as the longest-serving Bundestag member is given the honorary title “father of the House” and allowed to give an opening speech witho…

The vision of the Chamber, from the press gallery of the Bundestag, said it all. Those who used to sit in a corner, now occupy a quarter of the seats. Those who were relegated to the ideological and geographical confines of the hall, today dye a blue metaphoric, its color, much of the right. They are no longer minority.

He sits for the AfD in the new Bundestag. Before the step into politics Tobias Ebenberger tried to make another career.

AfD enters Bundestag with largest far-right bloc since 1945, sparking political alarm

The Alternative for Germany came second in the February 23 election, the best performance by a far-right party since World War Two, helped by years of economic underperformance and uncertainty caused by Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine