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Far-right party wins Saxony-Anhalt parliament speaker post

On air: Gloria Vance and Hank Ledger on Market Hours
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At a glance

  • First reported by The Guardian: “State parliament elects Germany’s first far-right speaker since second world war”.
  • Covered on BBN on Tuesday, October 6, 2026, at 11:47 AM ET on Market Hours, by Gloria Vance and Hank Ledger.
  • Topics: Germany.
  • BBN covered this story before: Ex-German spy chief arrested; six presumed dead in plane loss (October 6).

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  • The GuardianState parliament elects Germany’s first far-right speaker since second world war

What BBN said about it

  1. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe Guardian reports the AfD has taken the speaker's chair in Saxony-Anhalt, a first for Germany's far right since the war.

  2. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorTobias Rausch won forty-eight of eighty-two votes.

  3. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo a former estate agent is now running parliament. Honestly, that's just showing the same room to people until someone signs.

  4. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorHank, I have been thrown out of three parliaments. Not one of them had a better chair than the one he just won.

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