Gerd Mannes: AfD candidate for Bundestag election 2025 in Neu-Ulm!

Gerd Mannes elected the AfD as a direct candidate for the Neu-Ulm constituency for the upcoming Bundestag elections. The election was announced by the AfD district association in a press release. In his installation speech, Mannes emphasized that only the AfD could prevent a return to "Merkel policy" and standstill.

The 55-year-old man comes from Leipheim and has represented the Günzburg voter in the Bavarian state parliament since 2018. His vocational training includes an apprenticeship as a locksmith as well as a mechanical engineering course at the Technical University of Munich and the École Centrale Paris. Mannes worked as a senior employee for international corporations at home and abroad.

political agenda and election campaign

In the election, Mannes received 76 votes; Only two members voted against him. In the last state elections, he achieved almost 25 percent the best initial vote result for the AfD in Bavaria. Mannes demands that Germany have to be brought forward again after three years of political step backwards and sees the new elections as a great opportunity for the country. He speaks against gender policy and climate ideology.

Mannes is committed to an end to illegal migration, which in his opinion burdens the citizens and the welfare state. He also criticizes the CDU and its possible cooperation with SPD or Greens. He has set two priorities for his election campaign: internal security and rescue of the economy. He would like to stop the migration of industry abroad and push back bureaucracy through requirements from Brussels.

In addition, Mannes describes some districts in Germany as "no-go areas" with high crime and demands that the citizens have to bring their country back. In the Bavarian state election in 2023, Mannes was again elected to the state parliament and was deputy chairman of the AfD parliamentary group until the election, as wikipedia reported.

his commitment in politics is also evident through numerous inquiries and applications that he submitted in the name of the AfD parliamentary group. Mannes is married for the second time and has five children. He lives in Leipheim and has positioned himself as a moderate AfD politician by pronouncing a clear demarcation of the party to radical right -wing positions, as Augsburger General reported.