The AfD failed again in the runoff election for a mayoralty. In Bitterfeld-Wolfen in Saxony-Anhalt, their candidate lost to the CDU incumbent.
In Bitterfeld-Wolfen in Saxony-Anhalt, the AfD has once again failed in its attempt to win a mayoral position nationwide for the first time. According to the preliminary election results, the CDU incumbent Armin Schenk won the runoff election on Sunday with 53.8 percent, as shown by the city’s election statistics. His challenger Henning Dornack from the AfD received almost 46.2 percent of the vote.
AfD loses in the runoff election
In the first round of voting two weeks ago, in which four candidates took part, none of the candidates received the necessary absolute majority of votes. Therefore, in the city south of Dessau with around 37,000 residents, a runoff election was necessary between the then first-placed AfD politician Dornack and the second-placed Schenk.
Schenk has been mayor of Bitterfeld-Wolfen since 2016. Before the runoff election, he was supported, among others, by a non-partisan alliance for democracy and tolerance made up of associations and organizations. Bitterfeld-Wolfen is one of the largest cities in Saxony-Anhalt and, with its chemical park and around 360 companies located there, is one of the most important industrial locations in Central Germany.
It was only on September 24th that the AfD candidate Jörg Prophet clearly failed in the runoff election to fill the mayor’s office in Nordhausen, Thuringia, against the non-party incumbent Kai Buchmann. In June, AfD politician Robert Sesselmann won a district administrator post nationwide for the first time in the Thuringian district of Sonneberg.
Source: Stern
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