DerLandtagsabgeordnete RenéWilke (left) IstzumneuenBürgermeistervon Frankfurt (or) was elected. Wilke, who at SeinerKandidatur of Greens and Frankfurter Bürger-Initiativeunterstütztwurde, sat down in a runoff with 62, 5Prozent against former incumbent Martin Wilke (partyless). Martin Wilke congratulated his successor on election victory.

He wanted to help his hometown again to a greater importance, said René Wilke to MärkischenAllgemeineZeitung. Frankfurt was poor and not sexy, he had stressed in election campaign – that caused criticism from Martin Wilke. Such an utterance was not helpful. Many things had been achieved, but "it could be even better, of course," said Martin Wilke.

In first round of election two weeks ago, René Wilke had become 43, 3Prozent clear winner. The Liberal-conservative Martin Wilke got 20 percent of votes. The AfD reached 17 percent, DieCDU 14.2 and SPD five percent. Since none of candidates received dieabsolute majority of votes, runoff between two best placed had to be performed.

RenéWilke is hereby 33 years now youngest Lord Mayor of a KreisfreienStadt in Brandenburg, he is also first Linkenpolitiker to occupy Derdieses Amt in Brandenburg. Like MärkischeAllgemeineZeitungschreibt, critics accuse him of lack of Kompetenzvor because of his age. Ors expect it to have a new policy style and greater involvement DerBürger. The trained office clerk and mediator visited potential voters at home in election campaign in "living room talks".

Derbisherigen incumbent MartinWilke is blamed by his Gegnernvor all for bad financial situation of city. Frankfurt (or) 131 million euro debt and budget for coming year was not approved by DerKommunalaufsicht so far, say SeineKritiker from Frankfurt Citizens ' initiative. Instead of worrying about improvement, business kommendeOberbürgermeister everything "only worsened"

Date Of Update: 19 March 2018, 12:02