AfD state speaker says he received votes from Merz's conservatives

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2026-10-07

Magdeburg, Germany (dpa) - The newly elected speaker of the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) said on Wednesday that he believes he received votes from Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU). AfD lawmaker Tobias Rausch earned 48 votes in the 83-seat parliament on Tuesday, becoming the highest elected official in the anti-immigrant party's 13-year history, one month after it......

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