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State parliament elects Germany’s first far-right speaker since second world war

Tobias Rausch secures role of president in Saxony-Anhalt after AfD’s election breakthrough Europe live – latest updates Alternative für Deutschland has become Germany’s first far-right party to secure the position of speaker of a regional parliament since the second world war.

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