The AfD also stands for election in the Passau city council election. We introduce the top candidates of the parties.
- A new city council will be elected in Passau on March 15, 2020.
- The CSU and SPD have been the strongest political groups for 30 years, and they currently have the same number of seats.
- The results of the nationwide votes * are expected on the evening of the election, and results from Passau * should also be included.
Passau - How will the CSU do in the municipal election in Passau 2020? In the last city council election in 2014, it lost more seats on the body and reached a historic low in the city. With a good 28 percent of the votes cast, it was just under second after the SPD (a good 29 percent). Both parties won twelve seats. Merkur.de * asked the top candidates for the city council election in Passau about their core issues.
Passau local election: Jonas Weidenthaler is the top candidate for the city council for “Zukunft Passau”
Jonas Weidenthaler (Zukunft Passau eV)
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Jonas Weidenthaler joined the Junge Union in 2012 and is now involved in the newly formed list " Zukunft Passau ". “Passau has not been able to rejuvenate its city council for some electoral periods,” Weidenthaler told Merkur.de * . "Nobody from the younger generation is represented," said the 25-year-old law student.
"The current election showed exactly the same result," explains the candidate for the city council in Passau. "For this reason, we have founded a party-politically independent 'Young List' called 'Zukunft Passau' in Passau in order to get a 'fresh breeze into the Old Town Hall' again. Topics from the younger Passau can best be brought into the political debate. With an average age of 25 and the iron will to finally make a difference in Passau, I am optimistic that we will make it into the city council. ”
Candidates of "Zukunft Passau" for the 2020 city council election in Passau - front list places
Passau local election: Robert Schregle is the top candidate for the AfD city council
Robert Schregle (AfD Passau)
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The top candidate of the AfD Passau, Robert Schregle , believes that the city has to become "car-friendly" again. This also includes the re-approval of the 'most expensive rehabilitated suspension bridge for motor traffic'. For Robert Schregle, the bill behind it is: "Car traffic = personal freedom = stop inner city deaths", as the foreign language merchant Merkur.de * emailed on request. "It belongs together, contrary to all 'eco-fuzzie dictatorship'", he added. The 56-year-old joined the AfD in 2013, and is currently the district council and auditor in the Lower Bavaria District Association.
What is important to him in his candidacy for the 2020 local elections: "Stop the 'eco-scams' against the electricity customers of the Passau public utility company". As an example, he named the "certificate swindle with green electricity from Norwegian hydropower" - Passau finally has a Danube power plant. Another demand by the AfD Passau: "1000 apartments plus X immediate program". If social housing falls out of funding, the city of Passau should Have initial purchase rights instead of selling them to "rental shark organizations".
AfD candidates for the 2020 City Council election in Passau - front list places
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Passau local elections: Top candidates for the city council at Die Linke are Josef Ilsanker and Regina Ertl
Josef Ilsanker and Regina Ertl (Die Linke Passau)
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The Left Passau is going into the 2020 City Council election with a top duo: Josef Ilsanker and Regina Ertl . "The rapid rise in rents" is currently the most pressing problem in Passau. The reason: Residential construction was almost entirely left to private investors, explained Josef Ilsanker Merkur.de * .
The housing stock of the property and housing company (WGP) partly reminded him of a "real estate shark". In the run-up to the municipal election in Bavaria (here in the live ticker), the candidates for the city council of Passau demand that the WGP invest in the construction of affordable living space and the energetic renovation of existing apartments.
The problematic high volume of traffic is to be limited by mobility centers on the outskirts of the city, where commuters can switch to a well-timed city bus or other ecological means of transport, such as e-bikes. In addition, the two want to gradually make local public transport free of charge.
Ilsanker was born in 1975, an occupational therapist, and was a founding member of the PDS Passau in 1999. In 2006 he co-founded the WASG Passau. Since 2009 he has been on the executive board of Die Linke Passau.
Candidates from Die Linke for the 2020 city council election in Passau - front list places
Passau local election: Stefanie Auer is the top candidate for the city council at Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen
Stefanie Auer (Green Passau)
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The self-employed lawyer Stefanie Auer wants to become Green Mayor in Passau in 2020 - she is also the number 1 candidate for the city council election. Stefanie Auer believes that the city council should become younger and more feminine. Also on her agenda: climate protection, affordable housing - and of course the traffic, for which the following applies: “Right of way for bike and bus.”
The native of Passau wants to keep the Inn promenade and build more technical flood protection on buildings. Auer, born in 1986, joined the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party in Passau in 2006, and has been on its board since 2018. Auer is married, is involved in the "Solidarity Agriculture" initiative and runs the "Ladies' circle Passau".
Greens candidates for the 2020 city council election in Passau - front list places
Passau local election: Heinz-Peter Höber is the top candidate for the city council on the “Passauer List” (PaL)
Heinz-Peter Höber (Passauer list)
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Heinz-Peter Höber has been with the Passauer Liste from the beginning and has been its chairman until today. "We are not a party, but an association of politically interested citizens in Passau", he wrote Merkur.de * . The 52-year-old has been a member of the city council since 2002. The candidate on list position 1 works as managing director of a family company for heating, air conditioning and sanitary facilities, is married and has four children.
"I am concerned with the future of our beautiful city of Passau and not with political party profiling. Local politics should not only be left to the parties with their given programs. You have to find majorities together to make meaningful decisions in the interests of the citizens. I am committed to a livable and lovable Passau that is open to the challenges of the future. "
Candidates of the "Passau List" for the 2020 City Council election in Passau - front list places
Passau local election: Christa Tausch is the top candidate for the FDP city council
Christa Tausch (FDP Passau)
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Christa Tausch is the OB candidate and top city council candidate of the FDP Passau. She was employed by the city of Passau for more than 24 years, most recently as the long-time head of city marketing and event management. Since 2013 she has been an executive officer and treasurer. She became a member of the Passau city council in 2014. She is involved in many local associations, "because without the volunteer work, the Passau world would be a lot poorer," said Tausch zu Merkur.de * .
"With me as Mayor, Passau is getting a committed, life-affirming, cosmopolitan, attentive Passauer who listens to people," said the FDP politician. Direct contact with all Passau residents is important to her. “I will intensify meetings and talks with business, medium-sized companies, handicrafts, trade and the youth. I want to create a central meeting place for children, families and seniors. My goal is to take those who are affected by local political decisions. "
FDP candidates for the 2020 city council election in Passau - front list places
Passau local election: Georg Steiner is the top candidate for the CSU city council
Georg Steiner (CSU Passau)
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Georg Steiner thinks Passau is one of the most beautiful cities - but many have "stayed behind" in recent years, the CSU candidate told Merkur.de * . Passauer, who is currently Director of Tourism in Linz, has been active in local politics for more than 40 years: in 1977 he joined the CSU.
Like almost all of Passau, he lists the topics of traffic, environmental protection and affordable housing before the 2020 local elections in Bavaria. But he is also concerned that Passau no longer defines itself as a “regional script”, but has isolated itself.
Two examples from graduate business economist Steiner: "The traffic problems can only be solved if we work more closely together in public transport or at Park & Ride and jointly develop traffic axes with bridges and tunnels", and "A medical campus can only be created if the health infrastructure is in place throughout the region. ”Steiner is married and has two children.
CSU candidates for the 2020 city council election in Passau - front list places
Passau local elections: the top candidate for the ÖDP city council is Urban Mangold
Urban Swiss Chard (ÖDP Passau)
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Urban Mangold has been the second mayor of Passau since 2008. In 2020 he ran for the ÖDP as OB and was also a candidate for the city council election. “No disfiguring flood walls on the Inn promenade! This special place must be preserved, ”he told Merkur.de * . The historic Passau is important to him: "No to the demolition policy and return-shoe-box architecture!"
Mangold (57) also promises to work for affordable housing, sustainable urban development and a better infrastructure. When it comes to transport, we must finally take action instead of "constantly adding new reports!" Mangold wants to expand Park & Ride and a network of urban-rural public transport and local public transport.
Mangold worked as an editor for radio and was the state manager of the ÖDP Bayern from 1991 to 2013. He is married and has two daughters.
Candidates of the ÖDP for the 2020 city council election in Passau - front list places
Passau local election: Jürgen Dupper is the top candidate for the SPD city council
Jürgen Dupper (SPD Passau)
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Jürgen Dupper has been OB of Passau for more than ten years, and also a top candidate for the city council in the 2020 local elections. He is married and has five children. "Together with the people in Passau, I would like to continue the successful development of our city," said the 59-year-old to Merkur.de * about his candidacy.
SPD candidates for the 2020 city council election in Passau - front list places
Passau local election: Siegfried Kapfer is the top candidate for the FWG city council
The Free Voting Community (FWG) sends Siegfried Kapfer as its top candidate for the city council election.
Candidates of the Free Voting Community Passau for the 2020 city council election in Passau - front list places
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All information and dates for the 2020 local elections in Bavaria can be found here. Results of the 2020 local elections will be available on Sunday, March 15, 2020 from merkur.de . * You will find detailed reports on candidates, lists and all current developments * in advance, for example in the election ticker from Munich *. If there are new surveys for Passau *, we will keep you up to date.
2020 local elections: parties and candidates in other Bavarian cities
The 2020 municipal election not only promises an exciting race in Passau. A tough fight is also expected in other Bavarian cities. Merkur.de * has collected the parties and candidates for these cities:
- Munich
- Nuremberg
- augsburg
- regensburg
- Ingolstadt
* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.
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