The software glitch in the calculation of the seat distribution in the new Saxon state parliament has been fixed. The error has no impact on the preliminary election result, the state election authority announced.
According to the preliminary results, the CDU received 31.9 percent, with the AfD just behind at 30.6 percent. The BSW achieved 11.8 percent straight away. The SPD landed at 7.3 percent, the Greens at 5.1 percent. The Left slipped to 4.5 percent and the FDP to 0.9 percent.
The decision on the distribution of seats in the 8th Saxon state parliament will be made by the state electoral committee after the official final result, which is still pending, it said. However, due to the recalculation after the glitch, the AfD probably does not have a so-called blocking minority in the state.
The party had initiated an investigation. “If there are any irregularities, we will take legal action,” said the AfD’s Saxony state and parliamentary group leader Jörg Urban, demanding a precise error analysis.
A blocking minority means that a party has more than a third of the seats in the state parliament. In this case, it can prevent certain state laws that are decided by a two-thirds majority of all MPs. In Saxony, as in other federal states, constitutional judges and the head of the state audit office are elected by a two-thirds majority of all parliamentarians. Certain posts could not have been filled without the AfD’s approval. It could also have prevented the state parliament from dissolving itself.
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