{"id":1449157,"date":"2026-10-06T15:29:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T12:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/for-the-first-time-in-german-history-an-afd-representative-leads-a-state-parliament\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T15:29:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T12:29:56","slug":"for-the-first-time-in-german-history-an-afd-representative-leads-a-state-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/for-the-first-time-in-german-history-an-afd-representative-leads-a-state-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"For the first time in German history, an AfD representative leads a state parliament."},"content":{"rendered":"

For the first time in Germany, a representative of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has become the head of a state parliament. Thirty-five-year-old Tobias Rausch was elected president of the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament.<\/strong><\/p>\n

NTV reports<\/a> this.<\/p>\n

During the secret ballot, Rausch received 48 votes<\/strong> . 29 deputies<\/strong> voted against his candidacy, and another 5 abstained<\/strong> .<\/p>\n

The AfD and the Sahra Wagenknecht Union (BSW) party together hold 44 seats<\/strong> in the Saxony-Anhalt parliament. The BSW announced its support for Rausch in advance, so he received at least four votes from representatives of other factions.<\/p>\n

Rausch became the first AfD politician to lead the German parliament. Previously, he served as the party’s state branch general secretary and parliamentary director.<\/p>\n

After his election, the politician stated that he intended to be president of the entire state parliament and not use his new position to settle political scores.<\/p>\n

In the elections in Saxony-Anhalt, the AfD won first place and 39 seats<\/strong> in the state parliament. “Direct” previously reported the party’s victory in the state elections<\/a> .<\/p>\n

The AfD also confirmed talks with Russia’s Gazprom on the possible resumption of gas supplies to Germany<\/a> .<\/p>\n

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For the first time in Germany, a representative of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has become the head of a state parliament. Thirty-five-year-old Tobias Rausch was elected president of the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament. NTV reports this. During the secret ballot, Rausch received 48 votes . 29 deputies voted against his candidacy, and another […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":1449103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76870],"class_list":["post-1449157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1449103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}