The theater hall in Leutstetten was once again the location of the political Ash Wednesday of the SPD Starnberg. Guests: Markus Rinderspacher, Vice President of the State Parliament
Leutstetten - The SPD rocked the theater hall in Leutstetten on Ash Wednesday. With the musical support of Claus Angerbauer from Weßling, district chairwoman Julia Ney and guest speaker Markus Rinderspacher broke a lance for those involved in local politics. Combined with the appeal to raise awareness and sensitivity for democracy in society. For the badly battered social democracy, the courage should be given for a stronger SPD again.
It could become a habit: When Markus Rinderspacher, Vice President of the Landtag, arrives on Ash Wednesday, local elections are due. That was the case in 2014 and this year, little more than two weeks before the next ballot. For district chairman Ney, the event has been a living tradition for more than 20 years and is like a "class reunion".
Ney picked up a sentence that her party mate Jürgen Dupper had coined at the meeting of the Bavarian SPD on the same day. The Mayor of Passau had said in Vilshofen: “Local politics is an emergency.” The district SPD complies with this assessment. You have drawn up a list in each municipality. "It wasn't always like that, so I'm proud of it," said Ney. This also applies to the district council list, "diverse in terms of age, profession and gender", says Ney, "a diverse knowledge, openly colorful and curious."
Rinderspacher also took up the Dupper theorem. State politics would have to rethink the needs of the municipalities. Prime Minister Söder's move to make the state capital the eighth administrative district is counterproductive. "Why wasn't there an outcry in the other districts?" Rinderspacher was surprised. He called for "more butter on bread for the municipalities". For example, a redistribution of the general tax revenue from the current 12.7 to about 15 percent "would make many of our 400 subsidies superfluous" and could also save a lot of bureaucracy - in Baden-Württemberg and North Rhine-Westphalia it is 23 percent. "Let us give people in the region more freedom of choice and more personal responsibility", asked Rinderspacher, "Freedom for the municipalities means more vitality in democracy", he said, referring to the subsidiarity principle enshrined in the Bavarian constitution - bottom-up democracy.
