Marcus Pretzell, the lead AfD candidate in the North Rhine-Westphalia state election. Election officials in Germany's most populous state said on Tuesday that the far-right AfD party should have gotten 2,000 more votes than were originally counted in the state parliament election. The North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) state election committee announced on Wednesday that a review discovered that the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party should have received 2,204 more second votes than was originally counted after the May 14th election. “This is actually the case with every state parliament election,” he said. If there are any further doubts, Die Zeit reports, the state parliament could take up the matter.

Source: The Local May 24, 2017 15:00 UTC