Saxony: Election committee examines seat allocation – with consequences for the AfD

The election officer wants to check the result of the seat allocation in the Saxon state parliament. Several parties and experts assume that the state election officer may have made a mistake in the new seat allocation in the state parliament, reports the “Leipziger Volkszeitung”. According to the report, an incorrect seat allocation procedure was used. The matter is known and is being checked, said a spokeswoman for the state election office in response to a DPA query.

According to LVZ, the AfD would have one seat less under the other procedure and would no longer have a blocking minority in the state parliament. With this blocking minority, certain state laws that have to be decided by a two-thirds majority of all MPs could not be passed without the AfD parliamentarians.

In Saxony, as in other federal states, constitutional judges and the heads of the state audit offices are elected by a two-thirds majority of all parliamentarians. Certain posts could therefore not be filled without the AfD’s approval. In addition, the state parliaments could not dissolve themselves.

Seat allocation gives AfD a blocking minority in Saxony

According to the preliminary results, the CDU was once again the strongest party with 31.9 percent of the vote. The AfD came in second with 30.6 percent. The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) achieved 11.8 percent from the start and is likely to have a say in the future formation of the government. The SPD received 7.3 percent, the Greens are at 5.1 percent. The Left Party only made it into the state parliament with 4.5 percent because they won two direct mandates in Leipzig – then a clause comes into effect according to which they enter parliament according to their second vote result, even though they were below the five percent hurdle.