The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

Will Hans Söllner become a laughing stock candidate in Bad Reichenhall?

2020-02-22T19:11:58.051Z


Hans Söllner is running for mayor in the 2020 municipal election in Bad Reichenhall. First appearances suggest that he is making a fool of himself.


Hans Söllner is running for mayor in the 2020 municipal election in Bad Reichenhall. First appearances suggest that he is making a fool of himself.

  • Songwriter Hans Söllner (64) is running for mayor in the 2020 municipal election in Bad Reichenhall.
  • He has collected the required minimum number of 180 supporter signatures.
  • Söllner's first appearances in the election campaign seem rather strange.

Bad Reichenhall - Hans Söllner and politics - that has been a constant conflict so far. For decades, Bavaria's best-known songwriter has fought with elected officials, preferably with those of the CSU . No matter whether Franz Josef Strauß, Edmund Stoiber or Günther Beckstein. All of them got rude criticism from the “wuiden dog of Reichenhall”. According to court rulings, he went too far several times. Hundreds of thousands of euros have so far been punished.

However you stand by Hans Söllner , he polarizes and always makes headlines. Now the songwriter ventures into politics. He is running for mayor in the municipal election on March 15 as Mayor of Bad Reichenhall (Berchtesgadener Land district). He got the required minimum number of 180 supporter signatures together.

However, only appearances in the election campaign suggest that Hans Söllner could make a fool of himself as an applicant for the executive chair in the Reichenhall town hall . Or to put it another way. One wonders whether he has ever dealt intensively with local politics . As the Reichenhaller Tagblatt reports, he asked at a press meeting that from now on "the citizens and not 'some city councilors' who, in his opinion, don't know much about life in the city" should be determined.

+

Hans Söllner is running for mayor in the 2020 municipal election in Bad Reichenhall.

© dpa / Uwe Lein

Now the Bavarian municipal regulations stipulate that the mayor in Bad Reichenhall also carries out the decisions of the city ​​council . In other words, an OB Söllner would have to implement what the city council decides. The mayor also leads the city council meetings. Which is probably not going to be conflict-free with an OB Söllner.

If Söllner had once looked into the Bavarian municipal code, he would also know that the citizens of the Free State can make a lot of decisions: keyword citizen decision. This enables citizens to decide for themselves - without a city ​​councilor or OB - whether a new fire station should be built or a supermarket should be located. In Feldkirchen, the citizens also prevented an Ikea furniture store from coming into the community.

The songwriter doesn't even seem to know how many city ​​councilors there are in Bad Reichenhall . "Söllner sometimes speaks of six, sometimes of twelve or 14 city councilors, who should not determine the citizens," writes the Reichenhaller Tagblatt about the said press appointment. Resolution: There are significantly more than Söllner thinks, namely 24. But the main thing is that the city ​​councils serve as an enemy for the rebel.

Local elections 2020 in Bavaria: What are the tasks of the mayor?

Then Söllner also has a slightly utopian idea of ​​how he would like to exercise his office: “Mayor would be a 'side job' for him, first and foremost he wants to be a 'street worker', sit in a café, listen, talk. And he would continue to perform as a musician, that is out of the question for him. ”That could also be difficult.

According to Bavarian Municipal Code is the OB in Bad Reichenhall with over 17,000 inhabitants, is a full-time job. He would then be, among other things, the head of the municipal utility as well as all employees of the town hall and the city. Should Söllner exercise the office as intended, there should be a need for discussion in the city council, to put it mildly.

But that's not all: The Reichenhaller Tagblatt describes another appearance by Hans Söllner as a “collection of curiosities”. His solution to relieve commuter traffic: “This includes housewives who bring their children to school. Children should go to school themselves. The time they need to walk to school is part of the first lesson. "But what he cannot prescribe as an OB.

In order to equalize commuter traffic, he also suggested that the first class start at 8:00 a.m., the third class "for example at half past ten".

For Bad Reichenhall, Söllner also called for a general speed limit of 30 at the appointment. In order to implement this, "all traffic lights and signs should be gone, and it applies right before left". Then the congestion problem will solve itself.

To be fair, one has to say that Hans Söllner accuses the Reichenhaller Tagblatt on his Facebook page for misquoting him on the latter date.

He reproaches the reporter: "What is here is almost outrageous and someone who hears poorly or understands nothing should not be sent to such an event."

Local elections 2020: What are the tasks of the city council and municipal council?

He also asked for something quite different with regard to commuter traffic. Söllner:

"In order to prevent the chaos every morning, it would be desirable if parents no longer drive their children directly to the school, but if they are let out at a central point, for example at the district office, at 8 a.m., there all school buses Allow students to get out and then go to their schools from there. In Reichenhall all schools are in one area.

He also said that about school days in a completely different way:

"I think that a way to school is important and should already be part of class and that it is good for the students if they still take in oxygen and talk and communicate for 20-30 minutes and run and fight and laugh and exchange and that would be commendable , maybe help and get to know each other. Older and younger. Weaker and stronger. Smart and not so smart. It would also be very good if all classes started at the same time and the classes ended at the same time, so that a mother or father did not have to drive three times to pick up three children. Eat three times, drive three times, stress three times. "

As for the Tempo 30 limit, he wants to have said something else:

"I said that in order to solve the whole traffic problem in Reichenhall, it doesn't need more streets or a Kirchholz tunnel, just the regulation: all traffic lights are gone, all traffic signs are gone, speed limit 30, right to left and the whole thing slows down automatically or a car-free city center. "

Then what exactly does he want?

"If I were to become mayor, the first thing I would do would be to ensure that there is an absolute ban on glyphosate and round-ups in this city, including for the DB, for all private individuals and caretaker service, no more leaf blowers and no leaf blowers, no more animal transport through our urban area and no inaccessible containers with food thrown away behind our discounters. "

Pure intentions. But whether an OB from Bad Reichenhall can make such far-reaching decisions on his own is another matter entirely. Finally, there is the city council, which he cannot simply ignore.

In general, Söllner thinks that the city ​​council will look at his fingers or his bladder very closely: The songwriter and confessing stoner assume that if he is elected to the OB, the committee will send him to the medical officer first and arrange for a urine check.

However, if his candidacy as mayor is primarily a PR number, then Hans Söllner can look forward to a lot of media reports in the coming weeks. There is definitely a good thing about his candidacy: it should interest many citizens in local politics, which would otherwise leave the election without a trace.

List of rubric lists: © dpa / Uwe Lein

Source: merkur

All news articles on 2020-02-22

You may like

Trends 24h

News/Politics 2024-03-28T06:04:53.137Z

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.