German parliament speaker rebuffs far-right party

BERLIN (AP) — The speaker of Germany’s parliament says the far-right Alternative for Germany has no legal right to a deputy speaker, a position it has been unable to get other parties’ support to fill.
It is customary for each party in the lower house to have a deputy alongside speaker Wolfgang Schaeuble, a veteran conservative lawmaker, but candidates need to win majority support to take the post. Lawmakers so far have rejected three contenders proposed by Alternative for Germ