In Zehdenick, a small town near Berlin, nearly 60 percent of voters backed the Alternative for Germany party’s candidate.
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has won its first ever mayoral election in the state of Brandenburg.
On Sunday, René Stadtkewitz was elected mayor of the small town of Zehdenick with an outright majority. He secured 58.4 per cent of the vote, more than twice as much as his nearest rival. Voter turnout in the municipal election was reportedly just over fifty percent.
The victory makes Stadtkewitz the first directly elected and currently the only full-time AfD mayor in the state of Brandenburg.
While the state previously had a mayor who later joined the AfD, that politician, Arne Raue in Jüterbog, had run as an independent when elected and only became an AfD member years later before moving to the Bundestag in 2025.
