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CDU lawmakers reject AfD's Siegmund

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Saxony-Anhalt CDU leader Sven Schulze said no party lawmakers would vote for AfD candidate Ulrich Siegmund in the state’s minister-president election.

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Handelsblatt
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El Pais
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AfD makes progress in negotiations to secure the support of the nationalist-left BSW and to reach power in a state for the first time.

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With the constitutional session in the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament this Tuesday, it will show how the party wields power, and whether the rule of law will leave its mark on the AfD or whether the AfD will dominate the rule of law.

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