Usually ex-Prime Minister Dr.
Edmund Stoiber does not deal with local politics.
When it comes to the district clinic, he makes an exception.
Wolfratshausen
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During his time as minister and prime minister, Edmund Stoiber had an iron principle: he never interfered in local political affairs.
It is therefore extraordinary that he now speaks of his own accord on matters relating to the district clinic.
He urges politicians to enter into a dialogue with citizens on this emotional issue.
He knows only too well how much the Causa Kreisklinik upsets people. “I get a lot of letters from citizens who are very worried,” he says. He can understand that: “A clinic with which so many fates are connected is something extremely emotional. It's much more than any commercial enterprise. ”He himself has also experienced a lot in and with the district clinic: his father died on Moosbauerweg, his daughter Veronika and his son Dominic were born there - and he himself recently had an appointment at the vaccination center.
The Wolfratshauser honorary citizen does not deny that it is the duty of politics to think about the situation in five or ten years.
But for him it's about how.
Democracy has changed, people want to be taken more with them.
“Being close to the base has become an important moment in the process of democratic decision-making.” This must be taken into account, for example through events in the communities or in the Loisachhalle - as soon as this is possible again.
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Stoiber also looks with concern at the potential for conflict that the topic harbors. “The district clinic is a regional identifier,” he says. Anyone who touches them runs the risk of fueling the old North-South conflict. As a young politician, Stoiber himself experienced how difficult the process of merging according to the regional form was in the 1970s. It was men like the recently deceased district administrator Otmar Huber or the mayor of Holzhausen and Münsingen's honorary citizen Silvester Pölt who "did an incredible job of bringing the district together". As a "veteran" he could only emphasize: "Nobody wants to experience such a conflict again."
Stoiber also attaches great importance to the fact that the clinic is indispensable for the people in the medium-sized center.
The fact that there are two cities in the north that are so close together with almost 45,000 inhabitants is a "special feature that must be taken into account." Wolfratshausen and Geretsried have succeeded in seeing each other as a unit despite different histories and different interests.
"This metropolitan area needs this clinic."
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Patients get the best help there, also in Stoiber's own experience.
"That is certainly a standard that is far above average across Europe," said the honorary citizen.
Anyone who wants to change even the slightest thing must face a dialogue with the citizen.
"My contribution can only be to point out the emotional impact."
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