The AfD member of the state parliament Hagen Kohl failed Thursday in the election for vice-president in the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt.
In the secret election, Kohl received 44 yes-votes.
48 MPs voted against Kohl, there were three abstentions.
The AfD parliamentary group then requested a second ballot, the session was interrupted for 30 minutes and should be 17.
Magdeburg - to be continued at midnight.
The AfD has 23 of 97 members of parliament and was therefore dependent on support from other parliamentary groups.
Kohl was already the third applicant for the AfD, the previously proposed candidates Matthias Büttner from Staßfurt and Matthias Lieschke had also not found approval from the other groups.
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The Left, SPD and Greens had announced in the run-up to the state parliament meeting that they would vote against Kohl.
The members of the FDP wanted to abstain from the secret election or also to vote against Kohl.
The vote was approved in the CDU.
dpa