Are the rules fair, according to which parties can place posters in villages? Does everyone stick to it? The city councils debated these questions.
Dorfen - election after election the same game: politicians grin from banners, and their party friends sweat when gluing posters. Everyone argues with the competition about the fair distribution of election advertising. For this purpose, the city council issued a poster ordinance in 2018, according to which campaign advertising may only be posted on specially erected walls. But the then 11: 9 decision did not bring the hoped-for peace. Now the city council debated the tiresome topic again.
LDW City Councilor Martin Heilmeier had complained that not every group in the city center could advertise with the seven fixed locations and asked for an improvement. There is "a certain disproportion," Mayor He also said
inz Grundner (CSU) to. The administration has found a solution to the problem: an additional partition opposite the town hall with space for 20 posters. This facility could be set up by the latest Monday.
"This way, each grouping has the opportunity to be represented with at least one poster at each location," said the mayor. According to the regulation, the proportion is precisely defined on the basis of previous election results and some special rules created by court rulings. Accordingly, the CSU may put up 19 posters for the city council election, AfD and SPD 10 each, GAL 9 and ÜWG, LDW, public welfare, TEG and EEC 7 each.
The debate became really toxic at the meeting. "I have been publicly attacked because of the poster ordinance," said Josef Jung (ÜWG), referring to a Facebook post by Anton Stimmer (CSU) in the "Dorfen" group. He had posted and written a photo of a ÜWG poster stand, the list of which was “an administrative offense and should be fined”. To express such an accusation publicly instead of reporting directly to him is "all sorts", criticized Jung. In addition, he had already written on Facebook, the poster was not classic election advertising, but an event announcement. And such is allowed.
The debate on the social network was conducted very intensely with 35 comments. There, Stimmer had garnished his reproach against Jung with the words "after you are the one who always points out the alleged wrongdoing of the others". The CSU Council made no statement at the meeting.
Andreas Hartl (GAL) in turn was bothered by an urban letter on the subject, in which the word illegal was threatened. "When you drive through the city, you see countless posters," he said. The city has enough to do instead of writing to the local parties.