20 candidates are running for the mayoral election on March 5 in Frankfurt.

After examining the formal requirements, the election committee decided on Friday which applicants meet the requirements.

The number of candidates is even higher than in the 2018 election, which set a record in the city's history with twelve candidates.

On the ballot are Manuela Rottmann (The Greens), Uwe Becker (CDU), Mike Josef (SPD), Daniela Mehler-Würzbach (Die Linke), Yanki Pürsün, Andreas Lobenstein (AfD), Mathias Pfeiffer (BFF) and Katharina Tanczos (The party) first the candidates of the parties and groups that are represented in the city parliament.

The order depends on the results of the local elections.

Bernhard Biener

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung

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Other candidates from parties that were not elected to the Römer are Frank Grossenbach for "Die Basis" and Khurrem Akhtar for "Team Todenhöfer".

The tram driver Peter Wirth, better known as "Bahnbabo", the entrepreneur Maja Wolff, the chairman of the Riederwald allotment garden association, Niklas Pauli, the businessman Feng Xu and the "artist" and "futurist" Karl-Maria Schulte are running as independent applicants.