Applause for the mayor candidates and full ranks until the end: 460 citizens attended the panel discussion of Munich's Merkur in the Planegger Kupferhaus on Friday evening. It turned out that the differences are often only in the nuances.
Planegg - This is unique in the Würmtal: Eight candidates, two men and six women apply in Planegg. The jam-packed copper house testified that there was huge interest in decision-making aids. Here the citizens had the only chance in the election campaign to eye all applicants together. Hermann Nafziger (CSU), Judith Grimme (Alliance 90 / The Greens), Cornelia David (Free Voters Dynamische eV), Christine Berchtold (SPD), Philipp Pollems (FDP), Angelika Lawo (green group 21), Susanne Trenkle (Independent Mayor Planegg-Martinsried) and Astrid Pfeiffer (voting group for Planegg & Martinsried) answered in turn to questions about current community issues that had previously been sent to the Merkur editorial team.
On the podium, everyone pretty often agreed
Those who hoped to hear completely contradictory opinions in order to make it easier for them to choose were disappointed. On the podium, everyone was often pretty much in agreement. Cornelia David confirmed this: "As you can see from the election programs, there aren't that many differences between us." When it came to the Martinsried west bypass, everyone spoke in favor of the small solution - the construction of the road west of the garages along the X-ray road with the confluence with Fraunhoferstrasse. From a commercial route up to the AEZ, everyone distanced themselves. Hermann Nafziger also gave this expansion “to be seen critically in the meantime”.
Nevertheless, each of the potential successors of Mayor Heinrich Hofmann (SPD), who can no longer compete for reasons of age, tried to score. So David pleaded for a tunnel under the Germeringer Straße in Planegg, especially to get the truck traffic out of the village.
Station area should remain in municipal hands
In addition to too much traffic, the Planegger is concerned that there is too little affordable housing, especially for families and long-established residents. Therefore, all candidates sat on the station area to be built and shared the opinion that the area should remain in municipal hands. Astrid Pfeiffer, who is increasingly focusing on structural policy in her application, did not want to give “an inch” to investors. And while Philipp Pollems, who throws his hat for the FDP in the ring as party-free, could also imagine gaining living space by adding flat buildings in the commercial area, Nafziger suggested founding his own housing association.
Part of the complicity in the shortage of living space was given by questioner Elke Bernhard to the “immense influx” - due to the steadily growing state capital - and wanted to know how the men and women on the podium intend to stop it. A question that teacher Angelika Lawo did not want to leave: “It has a xenophobic impact on me. We are benefiting exactly from the mix here and do not want to build a wall around Planegg. ”The rest saw the same. However, Judith Grimme and Susanne Trenkle demanded moderate handling when moving to the new home.
Plenty of ideas for the energy transition
During the energy turnaround, proposals were made to equip underground tanks with photovoltaics and Würm as an energy producer to promote car sharing. Cornelia David also supported the installation of a hydrogen filling station in Planegg and a possible cooperation with the neighboring community of Graefelfing to generate energy using climate-neutral geothermal energy. The SPD candidate Berchtold, on the other hand, called for an information campaign about inadequate disposal of plastic.
A problem that the municipality had to deal with last year was also brought up: vandalism and noise pollution by Planegger youth at the Feodor-Lynen-Gymnasium and in Martinsrieder Parc de Meylan. He is getting scared at first, said Philipp Pollems, when he heard that the Planegger police chief wanted to introduce a vigilante to solve the problem: "This gives me the cold horror." Pollems says that space, especially for older young people, can be a way. Hermann Nafziger, who also called for "more space to hang out" and received express applause in the Kupferhaus instead of a cabaret, received a big round of applause.
Candidates reveal why they should be chosen
At the end, each candidate was allowed to explain why the Planegger should choose him. Astrid Pfeiffer wants to “look outside the box”, Judith Grimme wants “to make politics with the citizens”, Cornelia David “to design, not to manage”, and Susanne Trenkle sees herself “as a citizen from the middle and not as a politician”. Philipp Pollems sees himself as a moderator and broadly positioned, while Angelika Lawo “has the right eye for projects” and Hermann Nafziger feels like wine that has matured in the barrel for twelve years - as long as he has been politically active - and now ready to drink. Christine Berchtold is “completely with the people” and would like to bring the two districts closer together. But will Berchtold inherit her party colleague Heinrich Hofmann? On March 15 or at the latest after a runoff election on March 29, the Planegger and Martinsrieder know more.
In total, 21 candidates apply for mayorism in the Würmtal communities.
Carolin Högel
