Elections - Ulm elects Lord Mayor
The Lord Mayor of Ulm will be elected in a run-off election on Sunday. Incumbent Gunter Czisch (CDU) achieved 43.16 percent of the vote in the election two weeks ago. He is being challenged by lawyer Martin Ansbacher (SPD), who achieved 29.74 percent two weeks ago. The provisional result is expected on Sunday evening.
Czisch has been Lord Mayor of Ulm since 2016. Prior to that, the 60-year-old was mayor of the Danube city with around 127,000 inhabitants. Ansbacher has been a member of Ulm's municipal council since 2014. The lawyer has also been district chairman of the Ulm SPD since 2019.
After none of the candidates achieved an absolute majority on 3 December, the run-off election will now take place. According to the Tübingen regional council, it is examining the objection of one candidate against the election. The non-party candidate Daniel Langhans said that he had lodged an objection with the regional council against the counting of votes in the election. He therefore doubts that his share of the vote was actually 2.62 percent.
According to the regional council, the run-off election is not initially affected by the objection. However, should the first election be declared invalid, the run-off election would be invalid and a re-run or new election would have to take place, it said. A spokeswoman explained: "However, a mandatory prerequisite for an election annulment is that the election result would possibly have been different without the error."
City of Ulm on the Lord Mayor election Website Gunter Czisch Website Martin Ansbacher
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- Martin Ansbacher, the SPD candidate in Ulm's run-off election for Lord Mayor, expressed his confidence in securing the position, stating that he believes the stitch selection in certain municipalities in Baden-Württemberg could potentially influence the result in favor of Gunter Czisch (CDU).
- During a campaign event in Donaustadt, Ansbacher spoke about the importance of fair elections and accused Gunter Czisch's party of manipulating the vote count in some municipalities, a claim they vehemently deny.
- The SPD's Martin Ansbacher criticized the Elections Committee for not recognizing the irregularities in the vote count in certain municipalities, which, he believes, could have affected the outcome of the first round of elections two weeks ago.
- After a detailed analysis of the voting data in Baden-Württemberg by SPD experts, Martin Ansbacher called for an urgent investigation into potential voting manipulations in some municipalities during the Ulm Lord Mayor elections, which could have impacted the final result.
- Although SPD candidate Martin Ansbacher questions the integrity of the first round of elections in some municipalities in Baden-Württemberg, providing evidence of potential voting manipulations, the regional council in Tübingen remains confident that the run-off election will take place as planned, as no substantial proof has been presented to warrant a cancellation of the initial vote or a re-run.
Source: www.stern.de
