I Forbundsdagens økonomiudvalg modtog AfD-kandidaten Malte Kaufmann 16 stemmer ved valget til næstformand, selvom partiet kun råder over ti pladser.
Afstemningen skabte uro i udvalget. De Grønne og Venstrefløjen har mistanke om, at stemmer fra Unionen støttede AfD-kandidaten.
AfD havde opstillet Malte Kaufmann som sin kandidat. Det uventede resultat peger på mulig støtte fra andre fraktioner.
Hændelsen belyser den komplekse stemmedynamik i Forbundsdagen.
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The AfD re-elected Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla as chairs at its federal party conference in Erfurt. Protests against the event proceeded mostly peacefully.
In Saalekreis, Saxony-Anhalt, AfD politician Uwe Arendt won the first round of the Landrat election with 43.3 percent of the vote. He will now face CDU candidate Sven Czekalla in a runoff.
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Thomas Diener plans to switch from the CDU to the AfD. In protest, representatives of the CDU, SPD, Linke and Grüne left the district council meeting.
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Several AfD politicians' trip to the economic forum in St. Petersburg will be discussed in the Bundestag on Thursday. Coalition factions from the Union and SPD have requested a current affairs hour.