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Johanna Urbancik

Far-right AfD gains first-ever state parliament speaker in Germany

A candidate for Germany's AfD was elected parliament speaker in the state of Saxony Anhalt Tuesday, the first time a far-right party has held such a post in the country since 1945.

Lawmakers gathered for the first time since the AfD's landslide election victory in the eastern region last month, with 48 MPs voting for the party's Tobias Rausch as speaker and 29 against.

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