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Far-right’s rhetoric is ’toxic’ in Bundestag

“Some colleagues are genuinely scared”, said Claudia Roth, the vice-president of the Bundestag, in yesterday’s Rheinische Post. The appearance of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the chamber, last year, has changed the rules of parliamentary behaviour. “It is an anti-democratic, authoritarian party,” which has resorted to a “verbal aggressiveness” hitherto unseen, said Roth. 

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