Germany's AfD Poised to Preside over State Assembly for First Time
The party won backing from the BSW and drew protests as lawmakers prepared to choose a speaker for the first time.
- Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany has secured the presidency of Saxony-Anhalt’s state parliament for the first time in the country’s postwar history.
- AfD politician Tobias Rausch won the speaker’s post with 48 of 82 votes, exceeding the 39 seats held by his party and indicating support from lawmakers outside the AfD.
- The left-wing populist BSW backed Rausch’s candidacy, raising fresh concerns about Germany’s longstanding political “firewall” against cooperation with the AfD.
- The AfD won 43.8% of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt’s September election and holds 39 of the state parliament’s 83 seats, leaving it short of an outright majority needed to govern alone.
- AfD leader Ulrich Siegmund is seeking the state premiership in December, but the party has yet to secure enough support to form Germany’s first far-right state government since World War II.
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online-listing.comState parliament elects Germany’s first far-right speaker since second world war
Germany's Alternative für Deutschland party secured its first regional parliament speaker position since World War II after Tobias Rausch's election in Saxony-Anhalt, marked by other parties breaking informal agreements to isolate the far-right group.
After her election victory in Saxony-Anhalt, the AfD, which is classified as a secure right-wing extremist, for the first time in Germany, represents a state parliament president.
Celebrity: In One of Germany's Lands, for the First Time, a Representative of the AdG Came to Power.
The Parliament of the Federal State of Saxony-Anhalt elected Tobias Rausche of the Alternative for Germany (AdG) party as its chairman, as reported by the local media.
For the first time in Germany since the end of World War II, a member of a far-right party has been elected as the Speaker of the state parliament. Concerns are rising that a crack has appeared in the "firewall," a principle designed to block cooperation with the far-right, ahead of the election of the State Premier of Saxony-Anhalt this coming December. According to the dpa news agency and other sources, on the 6th (local time), in the eastern …
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Lee Shin-young = For the first time since World War II, a chairman from a far-right party has been elected in a German state parliament.
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