The Eglingen municipal council has remained largely the same. There are only three who were no longer elected to the board - two of whom were promoted.
Franz Gröbmair (Free voters, formerly Moosham).
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Egling - The latest local elections have brought little change in the Eglingen municipal council. The political groups of the free voters and the CSU with seven seats each are still in balance, with the SPD too, everything remained the same with one seat. Only the United Citizenship (three, previously four) and the Moosham Existing Community (two, previously one) swapped a seat.
Strictly speaking, there are only one retirees - i.e. municipal councilors who were no longer elected to the committee: Franz Gröbmair (41) from Schalkofen. For the past six years he had been the representative of the Moosham Existing Community list, now running for the Free Voters list. "For a long time it looked like there was no longer a list," he explains. "And I found it good how Hubert Oberhauser ran the community." Oberhauser is a free voter. On his list, Groebmair ranked fourth in the very promising list position.
Exactly this change of sides seems to have been the sticking point. "The Mooshamers traditionally choose the list of the old community," he says. So it happened that Groebmair received only 100 votes in his home country. "Of course that's not enough," he says. It doesn't help that a lot of citizens in the rest of the large community made their cross at Schalkofen. Overall, he did better than six years ago. “In total I got a good 800 votes. Last time it was around 600. "
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Alfred Demmel (free voters), replacement for Fritz Hofmann.
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The manager of the municipality of Straßlach finds it "totally a shame" that he is no longer there. He would have liked to continue to support the projects that have been launched in recent years. In Gröbmair's eyes, one of the factors responsible for the non-re-election is that many citizens did not know how much he was committed, for example as a member of the audit committee (also known as the "committee of the hardworking") or in the project group "Local Model". "Unfortunately, hardly anyone comes to the local council." He never admitted to being a regulars person. Gröbmair will resign from his position as a member of the Harmatinger Group.
Thomas Mayer (free voters), replacement for Erhard Gaigl.
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In addition, two other members of the local council did not make it into the body. The difference: Alfred Demmel and Thomas Mayer were only successors. "In the past six years, there has been a sad fact among free voters that two local councilors have died," says Alfred Demmel. He himself moved up for Fritz Hofmann in summer 2019. "The time in the local council was very interesting," he says. "They deal with a wide variety of topics." He would also have liked to continue and ran for seventh place on the list of free voters.
But it shouldn't be, the 966 votes were not enough. Demmel does not take it tragically: "There is also enough to do for me." Among other things, the farmer is the second director of the Holzkirchen dairy cooperative. It is important to him that Neufahrn is well represented, and this is the case with Florian Sperl (CSU), Heiko Arndt (CSU) and Peter Meier (free voters).
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The situation is similar with Thomas Mayer (45) from Endlhausen, who moved up for Erhard Gaigl in spring 2018. He also found the time in the council very instructive. "But life goes on even without a mandate." Placed on list position ten, he won 883 votes - not enough for another six years in the municipal council. "It is important to me that I got a good result in Endlhausen," he says. There will be no shortage of honorary posts for the water attendant: Mayer is the deputy commander of the Endlhausen volunteer fire brigade, local chairman of the veterans' association and much more.
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