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Germany's AfD wins Saxony-Anhalt state parliament speaker post, a postwar first
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The state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt in eastern Germany elected AfD lawmaker Tobias Rausch as its speaker on October 6, Nikkei reported. It is the first time a politician from a far-right party has held a speaker post at state or federal level in postwar Germany. In September's state election the AfD became the largest party with 39 of 83 seats, three short of an outright majority.
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The state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt in eastern Germany elected AfD lawmaker Tobias Rausch as its speaker on October 6, Nikkei reported from Berlin. According to the report, it is the first time a politician from a far-right party has become a speaker at either state or federal level in postwar Germany. Japanese outlets described the AfD as a far-right party; Nishi-Nippon Shimbun described it as anti-immigration. Tokyo Shimbun carried a Reuters-Kyodo photograph of Rausch after the election, captioned to Magdeburg. [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]
Nikkei reported that the AfD won a landslide in Saxony-Anhalt's state election, held with voting and counting in September, and became the largest party in the chamber. It took 39 of the chamber's 83 seats, leaving it three seats short of an outright majority. Nikkei's excerpt also referred to a newly emerging party holding five seats, but the available text ends at that point and the party is not identified. [ 3 ]
The available reports did not give the vote count in the speaker election, name any rival candidates, or quote Rausch or other party leaders. Nishi-Nippon Shimbun and Tokyo Shimbun published headlines identifying the vote as the first election of a far-right speaker in Germany's postwar period, and Nikkei carried the same point with the added seat figures from the September state election. [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]
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The speaker's post gives the AfD, described by Japanese outlets as a far-right, anti-immigration party, a formal role at the head of an eastern state parliament, a position the reports present as unprecedented since the war. Because the AfD is three seats short of a majority in the chamber, the documents do not indicate how far the party can set the parliament's agenda. The coverage is limited to the election itself and offers no assessment of consequences beyond the first-ever framing.
Ключевые факты
- Saxony-Anhalt's state parliament elected AfD lawmaker Tobias Rausch as its speaker on October 6. [ 2 , 3 ]
- It is the first time a politician from a far-right party has become a speaker at federal or state level in postwar Germany, according to the reports. [ 1 , 3 ]
- The AfD is described by the outlets as a far-right, anti-immigration party. [ 1 , 3 ]
- In the September state election the AfD became the largest party in Saxony-Anhalt with 39 of 83 seats. [ 3 ]
- Nikkei reported the AfD is three seats short of an outright majority in the chamber. [ 3 ]
- Tokyo Shimbun published a Reuters-Kyodo photograph of Rausch after the election, dated to Magdeburg. [ 2 ]
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- The number of votes Rausch received and whether other candidates stood. None of the documents reports a vote tally or names other candidates for the speaker's post.
- What the AfD intends to do with the speaker's post and how other parties in the chamber reacted. No document quotes party leaders or describes reactions in the parliament.
- Nikkei mentions a party with five seats in the chamber but the excerpt ends there. The article text available is truncated, so the party is not named and the point is not developed.
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- Nishi-Nippon Shimbun publishes a headline report on the election of a far-right speaker in an eastern German state parliament. [ 1 ]
- Tokyo Shimbun publishes the same headline with a Reuters-Kyodo photograph of AfD lawmaker Rausch in Magdeburg. [ 2 ]
- Nikkei reports that Saxony-Anhalt's parliament elected AfD lawmaker Tobias Rausch as speaker on October 6, the first such case in postwar Germany. [ 3 ]