Around 44,500 eligible voters in Görlitz are being called to the second round of the mayoral elections on Sunday. As in 2019, incumbent Octavian Ursu (CDU) and AfD member of the state parliament Sebastian Wippel are running against each other.
The second round of voting was necessary because none of the candidates achieved an absolute majority, i.e. more than 50 percent of the votes, on 10 May. Now a simple majority is enough, the candidate with the most votes wins. Ursu won with 49.1 percent, ahead of Wippel with 44.3 percent. The Left Party candidate Sabine Christian and the non-party candidate Hagen Jeschke trailed behind with just over three percent each.
