The SPD candidate Frank Steffen won the run-off election for the district administrator of the Oder-Spree district against the AfD candidate Rainer Galla on Sunday. With 29,963 votes, the mayor of the district town of Beeskow also achieved the approval of 15 percent of eligible voters required for the election.
Steffen has thus been elected as the successor to Rolf Lindemann (SPD), who is retiring on 1 August. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution has been observing AfD Brandenburg since 2020 as a suspected right-wing extremist case.