The AfD candidates have failed in the run-off elections for the district administrator posts in Ostprignitz-Ruppin (Brandenburg) and Saalekreis (Saxony-Anhalt). In the Saalekreis district of Saxony-Anhalt, CDU candidate Uwe Czekalla received 54.34 percent of the vote according to the preliminary result. AfD candidate Uwe Arendt achieved 45.66 percent.
The result was even clearer in the Brandenburg district of Ostprignitz-Ruppin. There, SPD candidate Ralf Reinhardt received 60.6 percent of the vote according to the preliminary final result. Torsten Arndt of the AfD got 39.4 percent. Voter turnout was given as 46.0 percent.
Incumbent Reinhardt is running for a third term and had already led in the first round with 34.7 percent of the vote. Arndt, who sits in the state parliament in Potsdam for the AfD, entered the run-off with 30.3 percent. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution classifies the Brandenburg AfD state association as a proven right-wing extremist group.
Source: www.zeit.de
