Germany news: Far-right AfD gets first house speaker in a German state parliament

The firewall held right up until it needed one more vote, and a party that isn't supposed to count turned out to be arithmetic.

An AfD member has become speaker in Saxony-Anhalt's state parliament with the help of the populist BSW party. And Germany's foreign minister has warned that the climate crisis could fuel extremism. DW has more.

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