Germany Electoral officer corrects the result of the state election in Saxony

The electoral officer has corrected the provisional result of Sunday's state election in Saxony. Due to a software error, an incorrect distribution of seats had been published, the state electoral administration announced. As a result of the recalculation, the AfD has lost its blocking minority in the state.

According to the corrected result, Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer's CDU has 41 seats, the right-wing populist AfD 40, the SPD 10, the Greens 7, the Left Party six and the independent voters one. The left-wing populist alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) has 15 seats.

The CDU achieved 31.9 percent (2019: 32.1 percent). The AfD was close behind with 30.6% (27.5%). The BSW achieved 11.8% from a standing start. The SPD landed at 7.3% (7.7). The Left Party slipped dramatically to 4.5 percent (10.4). The Greens received 5.1 percent (8.6). With just 0.9% (4.5), the FDP once again missed out on entering the state parliament - as it did in the last two state elections.

If the AfD had won more than a third of the seats, it would be able to block all decisions requiring a two-thirds majority in future