In the vote held in the Saxony-Anhalt State Assembly, AfD MP Tobias Rausch became the speaker of the parliament.
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In the elections held on September 6 in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, AfD became the leading party with 43.8 percent of the votes.
Tobias Rausch, a member of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, was elected speaker of the Saxony-Anhalt State Assembly in Germany. With this decision, an AfD politician was elected parliament speaker for the first time in Germany.
Following the election held on September 6 in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, the state parliament held its first session today and an election was held for the presidency of the state assembly.
35-year-old AfD MP Rausch, who received the votes of 48 MPs against 29 in the election in which 82 MPs voted, became the Speaker of the Saxony-Anhalt State Assembly. 5 MPs abstained in the secret ballot.
Thus, for the first time in Germany, an AfD politician was elected parliament speaker.
AfD came first in the state parliament elections held on September 6, receiving 43.8 percent of the votes.
The winner of the elections, AfD, has 39 seats in the parliament, while the Christian Democratic Union Party (CDU) has 15 seats, the Greens, the Left Party and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) have 8 seats each, and the Alliance for Social Justice and Economic Understanding (BSW) has 5 seats.
Before the election, BSW announced that it would support the AfD candidate, while the Left Party, the Greens and the SPD announced that they would oppose an AfD politician becoming the speaker of the parliament. CDU State Parliamentary Group Chairman Sven Schulze advised CDU MPs to abstain from voting in the parliamentary presidential election.
The fact that Rausch received 48 votes in the state parliament speaker election indicates that he received the votes of other MPs as well as AfD and BSW MPs.

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