On 6 September, the populists in Germany made history by winning a state election and only missing an outright majority in the Landtag (state parliament) of Saxony-Anhalt by the merest whisker. Advertisement.
At its first session, the new state parliament in Saxony-Anhalt is to vote on a speaker nominated by the far-right AfD. And Germany's foreign minister has warned that the climate crisis could fuel extremism. DW has more ... .
6 (Xinhua) -- The state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt on Tuesday elected far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) lawmaker Tobias Rausch as its president, making him the first AfD member in Germany to hold such a post.
The state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt elected 35-year-old Tobias Rausch to its highest office in the first round of voting ... classified the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt as a confirmed far-right extremist group.
Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) passed another political milestone on Tuesday when it secured its first parliamentary speaker post in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt.
After winning a state election last month, the AfD is now on the cusp of being the first far-right party to oversee a state Parliament since the Nazi era... .
The leader of the far-right AfD in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt said Tuesday he hopes to become state premier in December after the party's crushing election victory earlier this month ... .
As the far right surges, ChancellorFriedrich Merz’s unpopular economic policies and gruff manner have failed to sway voters turned by rivals’ promises of easy fixes ... .