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Germany’s Constitutional Court is set to announce its verdict on Wednesday regarding the right of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) to chair committees in parliament. The judgement concerns two lawsuits filed by the parliamentary group of the far-right party. The AfD has 77 members in the 733-seat Bundestag. First, they are challenging the refusal of the other parliamentary groups to elect their candidates to chair three Bundestag committees during the current legislative period. Second, they are contesting the removal of the AfD lawmaker Stephan Brandner from the chairmanship of the Legal Aff…

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