Overview

• The Wahlausschuss Potsdam meets at 10 a.m. to decide which of seven submitted candidates qualify for the September 21 mayoral election
• If all applicants are approved, the ballot will feature six men and one woman vying to replace recalled Mayor Mike Schubert
• Last Friday the Union parliamentary group removed SPD professor Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf’s nomination for the Federal Constitutional Court from the Bundestag agenda when she lacked majority support
• Students at the University of Potsdam criticized the treatment of Brosius-Gersdorf as unfair and likened the parliamentary deferral to a political “hunt”
• Members of the University of Potsdam law faculty issued a signed declaration praising her integrity and scholarly excellence