Offenbach ⋅ In the 2018 Hessian state elections, the CDU candidates won the respective direct mandate in all three constituencies in the Offenbach district. But the bottom line was that the success was not as flawless as this circumstance suggests, because all in all, the Union lost approval in the Offenbach district by a double-digit amount. The victorious constituency candidates also suffered significant losses. In constituency 46, which includes Hainburg, Mainhausen, Rodgau, Rödermark and Seligenstadt, the Seligenstadt CDU state parliament member and state parliament vice president Frank Lortz won the mandate for the eleventh time in a row. Compared to the 2013 state election, his result fell by 15.9 percentage points from 48.2 percent to 32.3 percent of the valid votes.
Nevertheless, Lortz, now 70 years old, is running again to win the constituency mandate for the twelfth time. Lortz is the longest-serving member of parliament anyway; he has been a member of the state parliament since 1982. At the suggestion of Lortz, the CDU nominated Jürgen Harrer, chairman of the CDU community association in Hainburg, as deputy state parliament candidate in the Offenbach district. In his main job, he has so far managed corporate communications at the airport operator Fraport AG.
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