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Six candidates for mayor in Waakirchen: the hot seat race

2020-02-16T17:14:54.898Z


A woman and five men apply for mayor, three old hands and three newcomers. They explained what they stand for during a Sunday panel discussion.


A woman and five men apply for mayor, three old hands and three newcomers. They explained what they stand for during a Sunday panel discussion.

Waakirchen - Sunday lunchtime and sunshine, who is driving political discourse? So many in Waakirchen that the chairs placed in the gym were not enough. More than 500 listeners came to the Waakirchen-Schaftlach Kolping family for political pint. This time it consisted of a panel discussion in cooperation with our newspaper.

Three of the candidates have long been at home in local politics. Markus Liebl (CSU) by profession. The 54-year-old is the general manager of the municipality and, regardless of choice, has a job in the town hall. If he does not become mayor, he will remain the manager, he said when asked by moderator Stephen Hank. Why did he want to switch from the comfortable official chair to the mayor's hot chair at all? Liebl's answer came quickly. If you were forced to take decisions against your own advice, the official chair was not that comfortable, Liebl said. His current boss, Mayor Sepp Hartl (FWG), did not hear it: he had apologized for illness.

Mayor election 2020 in Waakirchen: three old hands, three newcomers

If Liebl does not win an election, Norbert Kerkel (FWG) may become his boss. The 55-year-old has been a municipal and district council since 2014 and was also treated as a candidate for the district administration. The political commitment lies in the family: his father of the same name was first mayor, then district administrator. In 2014 the junior also ran as a district administrator. "But I have my roots in the community," said Kerkel. The municipal council had initiated many large projects during this legislative period, which now had to be ended.

Rudi Reber (59), candidate of the ABV, started as a candidate for mayor in 2014 with honorable success. Rainer Hölscher (55, FW), Andreas Kilian (31, SPD) and Cornelia Riepe (45, Greens) are newcomers to local politics. While Kilian, as a self-confessed newcomer, seemed rather foreign and Hölscher did not go very deep, the only candidate scored with good preparation, a lot of expertise and a whole bunch of fresh ideas. In order to take citizens with them, the community must also bring the information to them - by e-mail, for example.

The big topics: village center, traffic, development

As far as the big Waakirchner topics are concerned - village center, traffic, development - the candidates seemed to largely agree. The village center should be developed according to the citizens' decision by the village community, Waakirchen should remain rural. It takes more bike and footpaths and above all a traffic concept for the region. None of the candidates would like the southern bypass, which has just been rejected by the town council. Hölscher continues to think the tunnel is the best solution, Riepe wonders whether a bypass is necessary at all. Kerkel, like Reber, wants to fight for the preferred street, which is partly sunk into the ground. Making the expensive solution tasty for the federal government would not be easy. Liebl knows that there will be no quick fixes: "It will take more than one legislative period to break through the Gordian knot."

Also read: Local elections 2020 in the district of Miesbach: An overview of all mayoral candidates

All information about the 2020 local elections in the Miesbach district can be found here

Source: merkur

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