The three Munich OB candidates Dieter Reiter (SPD), Kristina Frank (CSU) and Katrin Habenschaden (Greens) delivered an exchange of blows in the electoral arena of tz, Munich Mercury and 95.5 Charivari.
- On March 15, 2020 Munich will elect its new mayor.
- Dieter Reiter (SPD), Katrin Habenschaden (Greens) and Kristina Frank are considered the most promising applicants.
- In the last round of elephants, the topic of living space was hotly debated. Check out the debate in the video.
Munich - Around 300 spectators came to the old press room on Bayerstrasse. Can the two young challengers Kristina Frank (38) and Katrin Habenschaden (42) be the top dog Dieter Reiter (61) dangerous? In 2014 the social democrat was elected OB - and he would like to continue to be the chief in the town hall. Frank and Habenschaden want to lift him off the saddle.
On Thursday it became clear: The biggest political differences lie between Reiter and Frank - which Greens candidate Habenschaden was rather amused to note: "Both are representatives of the current city hall government, even if it doesn't work that way." The SPD and CSU -Candidatin clashed on housing and transport policies. There were also some mutual personal attacks. Reiter said, for example, that he felt obliged to the tenants, which cannot be said of the CSU.
All information about the OB election in Munich can be found here.
OB election Munich 2020: This is how the candidates want to create affordable living space
According to Habenschaden, the lack of affordable housing is THE “social question of the city”. That is why it is fully behind the urban development measure (SEM) in Munich's northeast. This is the only way to build affordable apartments and to finance the infrastructure. For Frank, however, the SEM has many catches: it takes far too long and drives a wedge between the local population and the newcomers. Reiter spoke out in favor of "building where it makes sense". In addition, it is important to negotiate with investors that the share of price-restricted housing in new development areas will increase from the current ten to 30 percent.
In traffic policy, riders and property damage criticized the "populist stance" of the CSU with regard to the implementation of new cycle paths. Reiter said: "All cities in the republic would envy us if 500 meters of a new cycle path - like on Fraunhoferstrasse - were to be the biggest problem." Frank replied that the CSU reserved the right to take every single measure despite the approval of the Radentscheid citizens' request check. Her accusation against Reiter: He pursues "Holter dipolter politics".
At least on one point - it was a viewer question - there was agreement in the end. All three supported the expansion of the Grünwald stadium.