Following the software glitch in the allocation of seats in the new state parliament in Saxony, the AfD has initiated an investigation. "We want to know exactly what went wrong," said the Saxon AfD state and parliamentary group leader Jörg Urban in a statement. He demanded an exact error analysis. "If there are any irregularities, we will take legal action."
The error was caused by a software error, which initially resulted in an incorrect number of mandates being published for the individual parties. After a review, the state electoral administration corrected the distribution of seats. The AfD now has one seat less than initially stated. According to the corrected result, the party has 40 seats and thus loses the so-called blocking minority. There are 120 seats in the Saxon state parliament.
No one is being accused of deliberate manipulation, emphasized Urban. "This case is about the AfD's political influence in the Saxon state parliament. Any doubt about the final election result must therefore be ruled out."
