Frank Benischke: CDU candidate for Neubrandenburg's mayor election 2025

Frank Benischke: CDU candidate for Neubrandenburg's mayor election 2025

The CDU communal politician Frank Benischke, known as head of the Neubrandenburger Wohnungsgesellschaft (Neuwoges), has great ambitions: He wants to become Mayor of Neubrandenburg! In a explosive letter to the current mayor Silvio Witt and the Supervisory Board of the Neuwoges, the 60-year-old has declared his willingness to run for the mayoral election in 2025. The CDU city board will now decide how to proceed. Benischke is the first candidate to bring himself into play after Witt's surprising resignation for the office.

On Monday morning, Benischke confirmed his candidacy and emphasized that there are two strong but different candidates within the CDU. The members are now spoiled for choosing who will move into the real election campaign. "In this difficult time, I can achieve more for the city than just as managing directors of the Neuwoges," said the father of three. He wants to work for a strong majority in the city and is convinced that he can move a lot with his experience and network.

Important choice is about

The Neubrandenburgers will be called to the ballot box on May 11, 2025 to choose a successor for Silvio Witt. If no candidate receives the required majority, a runoff election will take place two weeks later. The deadline for submitting proposals ends on February 25, 2025. After a controversy decision by the city council, the rainbow flag on the station forecourt.

Frank Benischke, who has been the managing director of Neuwoges since 2002 and has numerous honorary offices in politics and sport, sees himself as a maker and string puller. Despite his past as a political officer at the NVA in the GDR, he never made a secret of it. The recent change in the local constitution in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, which has lifted age limits for candidates for mayor, could also play in the cards.