This year is the federal election.
In constituency 226, which includes the districts of Weilheim-Schongau and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Maiken Winter, a doctor of biology from Raisting, is running for the ÖDP.
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- You have this banner, big and orange, because they're the orange ones.
The one from the ÖDP.
The display tells the story of the lion, who is about to put his backside in a thumbtack.
It is not entirely by chance that white and blue Bavarian checks were printed on his buttocks.
It is a nonchalant reference to the position of the eco party in the Free State.
The saying goes: “Even a small thumbtack can move a big butt.” So far, so true.
This year is the federal election.
Maiken Winter, who holds a doctorate in biology from Raisting, will run in constituency 226, which includes the districts of Weilheim-Schongau and Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
22 of 23 members voted for them in the Murnau culture and conference center (one abstention).
In 2017 the 53-year-old got the best ÖDP result ever achieved in the region.
But: 3.5 percent first votes and 1.6 percent second votes were not a sensation either.
If you continue to draw the picture of the thumbtack for a short moment, Winter likes the current role of the ÖDP very well: little resistance fighter on the roadside who always puts out thumbtacks when the lion struts oh so pretentiously there again.
Winter sees her party as the Bavarian APO, the extra-parliamentary opposition.
She says: "We have achieved more than any other opposition party."
It's your loudest moment in Murnau.
Actually, she's not one to rumble.
She doesn't like the word “fight” in election campaigns.
She sees the federal election in September as a climate election.
She asks the members of her party to exemplify the ecological idea.
Passive election campaign, so to speak.
She herself has been without the car for a year and says: “I've never been so happy.” Except for Corona.
Germany and the world are “very close to significant dramatic changes,” she says when she introduces the company.
She sees the election as “the last chance” for correction.
Now there are people in the two district groups for whom this is not enough as a program, who see the ÖDP rise to the status of professional drawing pins in the near future.
Maybe not yet in the general election, but in 2023 when it comes to the state parliament.
“That's not enough for me,” confirms Ben Possemis from Raisting.
“Individual example is no longer enough.” Andreas Halas, City Councilor in Weilheim, demands a strategy.
With climate protection alone “you won't win a vote tomorrow, that interests few people at the moment.
We have to define ourselves more sharply ”.
There is really no shortage of classic ÖDP topics at the moment: the fight against lobbyism, the introduction of 5G, vaccination information on Corona.
Possemis sees in the vortex of lateral thinkers a number of “totally confused people” who have nothing to do with the sometimes radical forces of the movement.
The eco party must approach them, win them over.
For winter it will be an acrobatic affair to mix her position as a climate protector with the concerns of the grassroots.
The inner quarrel was particularly evident when she responded to a hint about vaccination information.
“It is an inner concern of mine to communicate the scientific facts that are really scientific.” Under no circumstances does she want the ÖDP to derail and end up alongside the so-called lateral thinkers.
But: She asked for help and suggestions for the election platform.
“A few topics are too much for me.
These are your tasks. ”The members were happy to take it on.
In the next few months the ÖDP is planning meetings - in whatever form.
In the end, even Winter was ready to say: “We have to hurt a little too.” The thumbtacks have been sharpened.