Landtag Sachsen-Anhalt: Kontroverse um Brandmauer in Magdeburg – Gab es geheime Absprachen zwischen CDU und AfD?
Die Wahlen um den Vorsitz im Landtag bringen die CDU in Erklärungsnot. Von der SPD kommt harte Kritik. Das Thema soll auch beim Koalitionsausschuss in Berlin auf den Tisch kommen.
In the Landtag of Sachsen-Anhalt, a controversy has erupted regarding secret agreements between the CDU and AfD in the recent elections for the Landtag's president and his representatives. In the constitutive session of the Landtag, the AfD made history by selecting a Landtag president for the first time on a federal level: Tobias Rausch received 48 out of 82 votes, four more than the combined 44 votes the AfD and BSW had together.
The origin of these extra votes remains unclear as the election was secret. Speculation on the AfD's website suggests that there might have been secret negotiations between the AfD and CDU; the AfD reportedly agreed to vote for the CDU candidate as their Landtag vice-president. The AfD also endorsed Hans-Thomas Tillschneider as their second candidate, who was elected Landtag vice-president with 44 votes, matching the combined 44 seats held by the AfD and BSW.
The CDU candidate, Carsten Borchert, received 64 votes, while 17 members voted against him. CDU faction leader Sven Schulze had advised his 14 members to collectively abstain from voting for Rausch, but only five abstentions were noted. Schulze described the election as secret, leaving the question of how the votes came to be unanswered.
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