New Oberdingen municipal council: no trace of women's quota

Five new faces, twice generation U 30, stronger than previously represented Oberdinger, but only two women: These are a few of the most important facts that the municipal council election in Oberding has brought.

Oberding - For our analysis, we spoke to Vice Mayor Anton Nußrainer. Apart from Mayor Bernhard Mücke, he collected most of all 20 municipal councilors with 1451 votes. He also represents the electoral community of Oberding and Oberdingermoos, which is now the only group or party that has gained a seat. The chair was practically snatched up by the SPD, which had not drawn up a list during the current legislative period following the death of Councilor Lotte Färber. All other voter communities have defended their number of seats. The CSU with four councils is at the top with the Oberdingern.

"I'm very satisfied. I was really happy about that, ”said King of Voices Nussrainer, who praised the“ good team ”of the Oberdingen electorate. After all, four women on the list, candidates from young to old, numerous active in clubs - all this, believes Nussrainer, has contributed to the fact that, unlike traditionally, the people from Oberdingen did not go abroad this time, but increasingly with their own people.

“Oberding is the largest town in the municipality. It is nice for our needs if we have one seat more, ”says Nussrainer, who gives various streets, walkways and cycle paths as examples, which he believes will be expanded in the future. Among other things, the expansion of the Moosstraße must be initiated in the coming years.

There are currently four women on the municipal council, soon only two. In addition to Franziska Hilmer, who has entered the second parliamentary term for the CSU at the age of just 28, Agnes Pointner is the new woman on the council. The 44-year-old baker is on the Oberdinger list. It is striking that only two women are represented, but they were chosen with a strong result, each with over 1000 votes.

Still: only two women. "That's a shame," says Nussrainer. "We would have liked to have had more, but that cannot be enforced." Of the four women on the Oberdinger list, Birgitt Kukla (714 votes) and Margit Lommer (652) would have been the first to move up. Nussrainer reports that he would have liked to have more than four women on the Oberdinger list. "But there were no longer any lures."

The councilors Andrea Hartung, Gabriele Kronseder, Anton Huber and Erna Schöttl were no longer up for election. As reported, only Hans-Peter Haun, fifth on the CSU list with 684 votes, was selected. After a head-to-head race, he landed 44 votes behind the 35-year-old Oberdinger Johannes Sandtner. Haun is thus the hard case of choice, which as Niederdinger has fallen victim to the changed voting behavior of Oberdinger. "The pit is disappointed," reports Nussrainer from Haun's soul life. “He always made good arguments. But that was the will of the voters. You can't change that, ”said the Vice Mayor.

In addition to Sandtner and Pointer, Peter Reiss, Christian Kaiser and Michael Kattner are new to the board. The latter is 27 years old, a farmer and carpenter. Together with business economist Hilmer, he forms the duo of the U 30 generation.