CDU MPs apparently lied about being elected state parliament president

According to the “taz”, eight CDU members of the state parliament declared when asked that they had abstained from the election of Tobias Rausch as state parliament president. However, there were only five abstentions in the secret vote. Because of the secret ballot, it is impossible to determine who actually voted for the AfD politician.

According to “taz”, Chrisschulenburg, Guido Heuer, Lars-Jörn Zimmer, Daniel Sturm, Marco Tullner, Stefan Ruland, Karin Tschernich-Weiske and Carsten Borchert stated that they had abstained. Sven Schulze, Sandra Hietel-Heuer, Tobias Krull and Tim Teßmann declared that they had voted no. There was no answer from MPs Ulrich Thomas and René Barthel. Frank Bommersbach was absent from the meeting due to illness.

CDU parliamentary group leader and Prime Minister Sven Schulze had actually declared before the vote that the parliamentary group would abstain as a whole.

Rausch was elected president of the state parliament in Saxony-Anhalt last Tuesday with 48 votes. This is the first time that the AfD has a state parliament president in Germany. The AfD and the BSW together have 44 seats. For Rausch's election, at least four votes must have come from other factions. The SPD, the Greens and the Left had announced that they would vote against him.

Rausch wants to invite ambassadors from the USA, Israel and Russia

Tobias Rausch told the right-wing extremist magazine “Compact” at the weekend that he wanted to invite ambassadors from the USA, Israel and Russia to parliament. “I would really like to invite the American ambassador first,” he explained. They have found a strong ally in the Americans and have already established good contacts with the young Republicans.

“We would also like to invite the Israeli ambassador,” Rausch continued. "Then I said, of course we also want to invite the Russian ambassador. That means that would be the order." People would like to promote diplomatic relations.