Berlin holds partial election rerun, two years after polling debacle

The German capital called up over half a million citizens to recast their ballot on Sunday.

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00:00 Over half a million Berlin residents took to the polls on Sunday as part of a partial

00:05 rerun of Germany's 2021 Bundestag election.

00:10 The repeat comes following a decision from the Federal Constitutional Court which found

00:15 that significant errors occurred during the initial ballot two and a half years ago.

00:20 Some parties such as the centre-right CDU and the far-right AfD saw a slim increase

00:26 in their percentage points.

00:27 However, once all the votes were counted, the majority in the Bundestag remained unaffected.

00:32 [Whoosh]