Far-Right AfD Wins First State Parliament Speaker Post
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A month after his historic electoral victory and while trying to form a government, the extreme right-wing Alternative party for Germany won a symbolic victory with the appointment of Tobias Rausch as Speaker of the Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt. He is the first far-right parliamentary chief in Germany since World War II.
It is the first time since the Second World War that a far-right politician holds a position like this. Rausch is given, among other things, the authority to determine who is and is not allowed into the parliament building.
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The German AfD has reached a new political milestone. Tobias Rausch has become the party's first politician to lead a German state parliament. The 35-year-old was voted in by 48 of the 82 members of parliament at the inaugural session of the Saxony-Anhalt parliament, even though the AfD only has 39 seats. A few hours later, the party also managed to get Hans-Thomas Tillschneider, who is considered to represent the party's radical wing, to the po…
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