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

· By Kateconnolly
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Tobias Rausch secures role of president in Saxony-Anhalt after AfD’s election breakthroughEurope live – latest updatesAlternative 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.Tobias Rausch, a former estate agent, was …

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