Runoff election in Kiel: Greens elected as mayor for the primary time – shut outcome | EUROtoday

The Green Party politician Samet Yilmaz turns into the brand new mayor of Kiel. According to metropolis info, the 44-year-old received the runoff election with 54.1 p.c of the vote. He narrowly prevailed in opposition to the impartial Gerrit Derkowski, who had been supported by the CDU, FDP and SSW.

Yilmaz is the primary Green politician to turn out to be mayor of the state capital of Schleswig-Holstein. The voters had given him a transparent mandate, he mentioned after the election. “A clear mandate that this city can move boldly into the future.” He accepts this.

A complete of eight male and one feminine candidates ran within the first spherical of voting three weeks in the past. Derkowski and Yilmaz made it to the runoff. The incumbent mayor Ulf Kampf (SPD) didn’t run once more after two phrases in workplace. He will transfer into state politics after the handover of workplace in April 2026.

A complete of 190,779 Kiel residents have been eligible to vote. According to the town, voter turnout within the first spherical was 48.7 p.c – within the runoff election, 43.5 p.c of these eligible to vote solid their vote. In the final mayoral election in Kiel in 2019, 37.9 p.c of these eligible to vote voted.