The matter stems from a recount conducted in a Berlin electoral constituency. Tagesschau reports that the new count changed the allocation of the direct mandate.
According to information reported by the German broadcaster, the seat should not be assigned to the CDU, as previously assumed, but to the AfD.
The change would affect more than just the distribution of the individual mandate. According to Tagesschau, Berlin’s Abgeordnetenhaus would in fact have five fewer seats than the previously assumed total.
The link between the recount and the reduction in the size of the assembly is made explicit by Tagesschau itself: the correction of the election result produces a different overall composition of the Berlin parliament.
The reassignment therefore concerns two parties: the mandate that had been allocated to the CDU is identified as belonging to the AfD, according to the broadcaster’s account.
The available information does not specify which constituency was involved, nor does it provide details on the distribution of the other seats. Tagesschau reports the recount and its consequences as the outcome of the correction.
As no second independent source or explicit official confirmation has been provided, the allocation of the mandate and the reduction of five seats remain, in this account, information reported by Tagesschau.