The fiercely anti-migrant pro-Russia German party, Alternative for Germany, described by mainstream media as ‘far-right’, has secured a historic state parliament presidency in Saxony-Anhalt after drawing support from hostile parties.

The party has secured the state parliament presidency in Saxony-Anhalt. The successful candidate reveals he received backing from members of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in a historic first.

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Despite emerging as Germany’s most popular party in recent polls, the AfD has for years been subjected to the so-called ‘firewall’ policy, under which mainstream parties refuse to cooperate with it.

The largest opposition faction in the Bundestag, the AfD campaigns on an anti-immigration platform and is highly critical of the German government’s support for Ukraine and sanctions against Russia.

AfD Triumphs

The party won last month’s regional election in Saxony-Anhalt with 43.8% of the vote, narrowly falling short of an absolute majority in the regional legislature.

Merz’s (Herr 16 per cent) CDU finished a distant second with 17.2%, in what the chancellor described as his party’s ‘most serious electoral defeat in decades.’

Breakthrough

On Tuesday, the AfD’s Tobias Rausch was elected president of the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament, becoming the first AfD politician to head a German state legislature.

Ahead of the secret ballot, representatives of the left-wing Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) announced that they would support Rausch. Together, the AfD and BSW hold 44 seats.

The Mighty Four

Rausch, however, received 48 votes, with 29 lawmakers voting against him and five abstaining. The result means he secured four more votes than the combined AfD-BSW total, although the secret ballot makes it impossible to establish who cast them.

Firewall Crumbles

The CDU parliamentary leadership had advised its lawmakers to abstain, while the SPD, the Greens, and The Left said they would vote against Rausch in keeping with the firewall policy.

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Following his victory, Rausch said he believed CDU lawmakers had backed him. Asked directly whether he had received CDU votes, he replied: ‘Yes.’

‘The era of political ‘firewalls’ should be a thing of the past,’ Rausch proclaimed.

AfD Isolation Ends

AfD co-chairs Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla similarly declared that the ‘years of ostracism against our party have finally come to an end today,’ and called on the CDU to cooperate with the AfD.

An INSA poll published earlier this month put public support for the AfD at a record 30% nationwide. Merz’s CDU/CSU alliance stood at 18%, the lowest level the pollster has ever recorded.

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