The committee will become more colorful in the coming legislative period: the FDP, the Bavaria Party and the Left will move into the city council. Free voters and the SPD lose seats.
Grafing - The voter readjusted the distribution of seats in the city council during the local elections in Grafing on Sunday. As expected, neither the CSU nor the Greens brought an absolute majority together, with the entry of the FDP, the Bavarian Party and the Left into the body, the city council has become even more colorful. The "Alliance for Grafing" was no longer in line.
The Greens recorded the largest increase in seats, which in the future became the second largest parliamentary group with seven mandates after the CSU, which will be represented in the committee with nine seats in the coming legislative period and will therefore send one more person to the city council than before. The SPD has to give up a seat, while the Left, the Bavaria Party and the FDP will each have a new mandate. The free voters suffered losses, which shrank from five to three seats. This allocation of seats will force the political groups to look for changing majorities in the various factual issues.
Angelika Obermayr: "30 percent vote for the Greens, that's a lot for a community"
"30 percent of the vote for the Greens, that's a lot for a municipality," said Mayor Angelika Obermayr (Greens), who has to run for the run-off in two weeks against her rival from the CSU, Christian Bauer. Depending on the outcome of this ballot, it will be decided who of the CSU or the Greens will just make it into the city council as a "successor". "I think it's a shame that the free voters lost two seats because they did a good job," said Obermayr. "A turnout of 67 percent is not a small amount, but there is still room for improvement." The top candidate of the CSU, Christian Bauer, said similarly on election night that it will now be all about the runoff election again, "the voters to mobilize. But this is not easy in the times of Corona ”. He hoped "that more young people will come to the city council, but they will not have it easy," he said, referring to the election results.
Grafing: Walter Schmidtke on the council
With his entry into the council, Walter Schmidtke of the Bavarian Party achieved one of his “priority goals”. The presence in the city council was particularly important to him and this goal was achieved, he said on election evening.
Claus Eimer from the FDP also expressed similar optimism: "We are very satisfied with the result, because we have fully achieved our goals: after a decade-long break, the return of liberal local politics to the Grafinger city council," he said. "We don't have an existing, long-standing foundation in Grafing, but have won every vote anew."
Christian Einhellig, the chairman of the Free Voters in Grafing, attributes the disappointing result of his group to the fact that “because of the tough competition for the mayor's office, we were unfortunately somewhat marginalized in the perception of voters, even though we were very present in the election campaign. "But the free voters would stand together according to the motto:" Now more than ever. "
That is the Grafinger city council
CSU: 1. Christian Bauer (5781 votes LP 1), 2. Thomas Huber (5483, LP 2), 3. Max Graf von Rechberg (4999, LP 6), 4. Josef Rothmoser (3526, LP 4), 5. Josef Pollinger (3268, LP 12), 6th Florian Wieser (3146, LP 3), 7th Susanne Linhart (2965, LP 4), 8th Elli Huber (2762, LP 7), 9th Josef Fritz (2721, LP 18), successor Georg Schlechte.
Greens: 1. Angelika Obermayr (5331, LP 1), 2. Johannes Oswald (3408, LP 4), 3. Hermann Maier (2940, LP 2), 4. Ottilie Eberl (2714, LP 17), 5. Roswitha Singer (2459, LP 3), 6th Keno Mayerhofer (2451, LP 6), 7th Josef Biesenberger (2366, LP 8), successor Uwe Peters.
SPD: 1. Christian Kerschner-Gehrling (1580, LP 1), 2. Regina Offenwanger (1318, LP 4).
FDP: 1. Claus Eimer 1394, LP 1).
FW: 1. Christian Einhellig (3113, LP 1), Josef Klinger (2242, LP 2), Veronika Oswald (1993, LP 3).
BP: Walter Schmidtke (957, LP 1).
Left: Lena Huppertz (1106, LP1).