Overview
- Potsdam votes on October 12 in a mayoral runoff between independent Noosha Aubel and SPD candidate Severin Fischer after a first round of 34 percent to 16.9 percent.
- Fischer secured support from the FDP and a new video endorsement by former Linke faction leaders Sigrid Müller and Stefan Wollenberg, who cite his pledges on keeping the school‑meal price cap, cheap student tickets, and opposition to selling public land.
- Aubel campaigns with a broad local alliance including the Greens, Die Andere, Die Partei, Volt, the BfW, and the Tierschutzpartei, and she highlights additional individual supporters such as Münster’s CDU mayor Markus Lewe.
- The Linke, CDU, and AfD have issued no blanket recommendations, leaving voters from eliminated candidates as decisive for both camps.
- Both candidates outline similar housing approaches centered on densification and serial new builds and support a more car‑reduced center, as debates over tight city finances and projects such as Hasso Plattner’s campus plan frame the choice.