Saxony-Anhalt: Carsten Borchert is Second Vice-President of the State Parliament

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Magdeburg has a new state parliament presidium as of October 6, 2026 — and it's an unusual lineup: the President is provided by the AfD, one of the two vice presidents also comes from the AfD, and now the CDU has filled the second Vice-Chair position with Carsten Borchert. The vote was decided with a clear, but not overwhelming majority: 64 MPs said yes, 17 voted no, one member abstained.

Who is the new second Vice?

Carsten Borchert comes from the CDU parliamentary group and is known in the state parliament primarily as an education politician. With 64 of 82 votes cast, he prevailed on Tuesday at the constituent session. 17 votes against and one abstention show: the vote was not unanimous — which is no surprise when filling a Vice-Chair position in Saxony-Anhalt these days.

According to the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, Borchert was already elected in the first ballot. MDR confirms the result in its live ticker for the constituent session: 64 yes votes out of 82 cast — both sources are in full agreement.

What the presidium looks like now

Background: the new state parliament was elected on September 6, 2026, with 83 members. At the constituent session on October 6, AfD MP Tobias Rausch was first elected as President of the state parliament — according to taz.de, the first far-right parliamentary president since 1945. Then Hans-Thomas Tillschneider, a faction colleague of Rausch's, took the first Vice-Chair post. With Borchert, the trio is now complete.

Three vice posts normally ensure a broader distribution of session leadership across the parliamentary groups — which certainly plays a role after the election of an AfD President. The CDU provides a kind of counterweight in the presidium with Borchert, even though it did not get its way in the presidential election.

How did the vote proceed exactly?

The session on Tuesday (October 6, 2026) was the first joint session of the ninth state parliament. On the agenda was not only the presidium election, but also the filling of committee seats — and later the election of the Minister-President. MDR covered the day in a live ticker; the constituent session began in the Magdeburg state parliament building at Domplatz.

Borchert did not need a runoff in his first ballot. 64 votes were enough — that corresponds roughly to what CDU and SPD could achieve together. This result was no coincidence.

What this means for the state parliament

The Saxony-Anhalt state parliament has its presidium: Tobias Rausch (AfD) as President, Hans-Thomas Tillschneider (AfD) as first Vice, Carsten Borchert (CDU) as second Vice. This means that in the initial sessions, two-thirds of session leadership lies with the AfD — a configuration that has never before existed in the history of the Magdeburg state parliament.

For you as a citizen, this means: the coming weeks will show how Rausch and Tillschneider lead the sessions, what accents Borchert sets as second Vice, and where there will be friction in the plenary. The filling of committee seats and the election of the Minister-President are still pending — we'll stay on top of it.