Far-Right AfD Wins First Ever Mayoral Election in Brandenburg
Stadtkewitz won 58.4% in the first round, giving the anti-immigration party its first directly elected mayor in Brandenburg.
- On Sunday, René Stadtkewitz of the Alternative for Germany won the mayoral election in Zehdenick, securing 58.4 per cent of the vote and becoming the first directly elected AfD mayor in Brandenburg.
- The election occurred early after previous mayor Alexander Kretzschmar went on sick leave 11 days after taking office, continuing a pattern of three mayors in five years in the Brandenburg town.
- Free Democratic Party candidate Stephan von Hundelshausen finished second with 28.6 per cent, while FDP state chairman Zyon Braun called the AfD victory a "shadow over the town" despite his party's "respectable success."
- AfD state chairman René Springer described the result as an "unmistakable signal" for future elections, as nationwide polling shows the anti-immigration party reaching record support levels of up to 28 per cent.
- Stadtkewitz previously served as a Christian Democratic Union member of the Berlin parliament before founding the German Freedom Party; he joined the AfD in 2024 and has served on the Zehdenick town council since summer 2024.
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ussanews.comAfD Wins Historic First Mayoral Election in Brandenburg
Candidate of the right-wing anti-immigration Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), René Stadtkewitz, won a landslide victory in the first round of the mayoral election in Zehdenick, marking the first such electoral success for his party in the eastern state of Brandenburg. Stadtkewitz secured 58.4 per cent of the vote in Zehdenick, located north of the German capital Berlin, in the election held on Sunday, 10 May, winning an absolute majority in th…
René Stadtkewitz of the AfD becomes the new mayor in Zehdenick. He is clearly opposed to three competitors – and thus becomes the first directly elected AfD mayor in Brandenburg.
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