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The Rhineland-Palatinate state capital of Mainz has had a non-party mayor for the first time since 1949. According to information from the town hall, 39-year-old Nino Haase received 63.6 percent of the votes in Sunday's runoff. Only 36.4 percent of Mainz voted for his competitor from the Greens, Christian Viering. Around 162,000 citizens were invited to vote. Voter turnout was 40.1 percent.
The runoff is a turning point for the largest city in Rhineland-Palatinate. The SPD has provided the mayor since 1949. The election had become necessary because Mayor Michael Ebling (SPD) had moved to the head of the Ministry of the Interior.
The new mayor begins his eight-year term in a comfortable position. Mainly thanks to the tax revenue from Biontech, Mainz, which has long been heavily indebted, is now one of the richest cities in the republic.
Haase had already emerged as the clear favorite in the first ballot on February 12. He had received 40.2 percent of the votes and left his six competitors well behind. 21.5 percent of voters voted for Viering.
The 39-year-old Haase was the best-known candidate in the state capital. The graduate chemist and entrepreneur had to admit defeat to Ebling in the 2019 runoff election as a candidate for the CDU, but won a respectable 44.8 percent. He became known to the people of Mainz as the spokesman for a citizens' initiative that overturned the Bible Tower design for a new building for the Gutenberg Museum in a referendum in 2018. After the defeat in 2019, however, he was no longer particularly noticeable in local politics.
"Although Haase is not a red-green-yellow, he appears pragmatic and willing to compromise in the election campaign," said political scientist Uwe Jun from the University of Trier. A traffic light government has the majority in the city parliament. "He made substantive offers to red and green and is not that far removed from the yellow anyway."
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