Saxony-Anhalt: AfD wants to provide the President of the State Parliament in Saxony-Anhalt
The new state parliament in Magdeburg is meeting for the first time and for the first time there will probably be a parliamentary president from the AfD - with the help of the BSW. Party founder Wagenknecht defends this.
Sahra Wagenknecht, leader of the BSW party, has defended her party's decision to vote for AfD candidate Tobias Rausch as President of the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament. The AfD won the recent state election with almost 44% of the vote and Rausch's election would make him the first AfD Landtagspräsident in Germany. The BSW has five members in the parliament, which has 39 AfD seats and 39 seats shared among CDU, SPD, Grüne, and Linke.
Protests are planned outside the parliament building in Magdeburg, where the newly elected parliament is holding its constitutive session.
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