By Giuseppe De Santis
The anti-immigration AfD party has been doing very well in opinion polls, recently achieving a record 23% support. Their candidates also continue to get elected in local authorities.
In a local election that took place on Sunday the 17th of December, Tim Lochner saw off the CDU candidate to become the Alternative for Germany’s (AfD) first city mayor.
Under the German mayoral system, some large towns have city mayors and this time a candidate from Germany’s Alternative for Germany party won a city mayoral election for the first time!
Tim Lochner was elected after winning the second round of voting in Pirna, a town in the eastern state of Saxony, where the AfD has been notably strong.
Initial results showed that Lochner had won 38.5% of the vote, the city stated on its website.
The nationalist candidate beat Kathrin Dollinger-Knuth (CDU), who came second with 31.4% of the vote, and Ralf Thiele, from the small Free Voters party, who got 30.1%.
Lochner, 53, is an independent but decided to stand under the AfD banner for the vote, which has obviously done him no harm and helped get him elected.
In the first round Lochner secured a third of the vote, but was able to increase his share in the second round.
Pirna marks the first time the AfD has won a mayorship in a town. In August, Hannes Loth was elected as the first mayor of a municipality, Raguhn-Jeßnitz in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, but this was a region with just 9,000 inhabitants.
In June, the party won its first district council election, with candidate Robert Sesselmann in the Sonnenberg district in Thuringia.
Those victories are very important because it proves the AfD party is getting closer to power and now no one can be in any doubt that in September, when regional elections will take place in three east German regions, AfD will be able to get into power in all of them given that it’s the most popular party; any attempt to keep it out of power is going to fail and this will send shockwaves not only throughout Germany but also in Europe.
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