Far-Right Candidate Narrowly Beaten in Germany After Film Industry Petition

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Voters in the eastern town of Gorlitz, where films such as 'The Reader' and 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' were shot, rejected an anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim candidate for mayor, instead re-electing Romanian immigrant Octavian Ursu.

Voters in the eastern German town of Gorlitz have rejected a far-right candidate for mayor, after a campaign that drew attention, and condemnation, from the film industry within and outside Germany.

Sebastian Wippel, an ex-policeman and candidate for the far-right anti-immigrant party Alternative for Germany , lost out to the 51-year-old Romanian immigrant Octavian Ursu, who was reelected mayor of the picturesque historic town near the Polish border. On Sunday's run-off election, Ursu, who stood for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s centre-right Christian Democratic Union party, received just over 55 percent of the vote. Wippel received just under 45 percent.

The election was closely watched in part because Gorlitz has become a favorite shooting location for international film productions. The town, nicknamed Gorliwood, played the backdrop for such features as Wes Anderson's

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