2023-07-03 20:02:00
The 42-year-old AfD member of parliament Hannes Loth won the run-off election for the mayor’s office in the small town of Raguhn-Jeßnitz on Sunday. With 51.13 percent of the votes, he prevailed over non-party candidate Nils Naumann, who received 48.87 percent of the votes. Around 7800 people were entitled to vote.
The farmer Loth has been an AfD member since 2013 and a member of the state parliament and city council in Raguhn-Jeßnitz since 2016. During the election campaign, he prioritized municipal issues such as economic development.
Germany’s first AfD mayor Hannes Loth Image: State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt
second success
For the right-wing AfD, it is the second regional political success in a short time. Only a week before that, the AfD candidate Robert Stuhlmann was elected district administrator in the Thuringian district of Sonneberg (the OÖN reported).
In Thuringia, the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution classified the party as “proven right-wing extremist”, nationwide the AfD is a suspected right-wing extremist. Saxony’s Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) warned on Monday of “growing polarization in Germany”.
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