BERLIN — A German regional lawmaker admitted Friday that he drew a swastika next to a far-right candidate’s name in a state parliament vote and said he was giving up his post as a deputy speaker of the legislature. The speaker of the legislature in the southwestern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg said Thursday that someone had drawn the Nazi symbol on a ballot paper in a vote for a regional cross-border body that includes representatives from Germany as well as neighboring France and Switzerland. The far-right, anti-immigration Alternative for Germany party, known by its acronym AfD, had tried and failed to...
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