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Elections officials in the eastern German state of Saxony are reviewing preliminary results after several parties and independent commentators suggested they may have miscalculated the likely distribution of seats in the next Saxony state parliament. The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), which is projected to finish a close second in the state election behind the centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU), may have been given an extra seat in the preliminary results, the Leipziger Volksanzeiger newspaper reported. A spokeswoman for Saxony’s electoral commission told dpa that they were aware…

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