CDU presents Willo Göpel: The new hope for Potsdam!

CDU presents Willo Göpel: The new hope for Potsdam!

Potsdam, Deutschland - The political landscape in Potsdam gets a breath of fresh air. On Thursday evening, the CDU sent the historian and construction specialist Willo Göpel into the race as a new candidate for the mayor election. The party is sending its own man into the race after long in the room that it could compete without direct applicants. Göpel sees the need for a bourgeois alternative to the previous, mostly politically left applicants and would like to continue the line of the former mayor Platzeck and Jalobs. This makes you take notice and could mobilize the voters in Potsdam.

Willo Göpel, born in 1963, has not only made a name for himself in journalism, where he has been the state political department of the B.Z. Leaded, but has also been running his own company for a decade, which develops innovative projects for residential, commercial and special properties. For Göpel it is clear that Potsdam has to work again. His plan: the disclosure of the city's financial situation and the implementation of important resolutions. He is also actively involved in the Potsdam city palace and the restoration of the city channel and is considered an expert in building culture.

election campaign and political competition

The upcoming election campaign promises to be exciting, because political competition is strong. In addition to the CDU, the SPD competes with Severin Fischer as an expected candidate. In addition, the Greens and the other with the non-partisan candidate Noosha Aubel and the AfD, which leads Chaled-Uwe Said. The establishment assembly of the CDU Potsdam, in which Göpel is officially confirmed, takes place on July 12th. The pressure on the CDU is noticeable, because the current electoral trends show that in the Potsdam city council 2024 the left with 19.4 % is the strongest faction, followed by the SPD with 14.7 % and the CDU with 14.5 % of which has dropped by 4.3 % compared to 2019.

If you look at the last election results, the CDU's challenge becomes even clearer. The Greens were able to grow by 4.2 %, while the FDP even lost 9.4 % of its votes. With the SPD and the Greens as the main competitor, Göpel faces a clever political strategy to regain votes. So far, the left, the FDP and the free voters have not yet announced their candidates, which also designs the field dynamically.

digital election reports

The election results are now also available in a detailed app for the better traceability of political developments in Potsdam (see also Potsdam.de ). Here the end results, voter numbers and lists of the elected applicants and substitutes can be made visible. This innovation promotes transparency and gives the voters a tool to find out more about the political framework.

Overall, the signs for a moving election time in Potsdam are. With Willo Göpel, the CDU has an experienced candidate on board who could bring a breath of fresh air to bourgeois politics. But the competition is not sleeping and the electoral powers will take a closer look at how the events develop. The voters can be excited to see what political overweight can prevail.