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Magdeburg (dpa / sa) - The state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt will have to attend a special corona meeting in the coming days.

The 21 AfD MPs and the non-attached MP André Poggenburg requested a special session on Thursday, as the group announced.

It should be about the extension of the lockdown agreed by the federal and state governments, which the AfD rejects.

If a quarter of the MPs support such a request, the state parliament must meet.

A quarter of the MPs in the current state parliament are 22, so the 21 AfD MPs and Poggenburg are sufficient.

According to the rules of procedure, the President of the Landtag, Gabriele Brakebusch (CDU), has to convene parliament “immediately” for a meeting on the proposed topic.

"The meeting must take place within a reasonable time, but no later than two weeks after receipt of the request," says the rules of procedure.

The AfD parliamentary group and its former parliamentary group leader Poggenburg had already used this right of opposition at the end of October, also out of dissatisfaction with the Corona policy.

At that time, the state parliament met four days after the motion.

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