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Wolfgang Wetzel, top candidate of the Greens, and Christin Furtenbacher, State Board Spokeswoman for the Greens in Saxony, walk through the city center with election posters.
Photo: Bodo Schackow / dpa
The Greens want to use their own election posters in Zwickau to signal against the far-right splinter party »III.
Way «set.
In an action under the motto “Don't let democrats down”, members of the Saxon state association were supposed to come to Zwickau on Wednesday evening to hang up campaigns for the Greens.
The action is a reaction to a decision by the Chemnitz Administrative Court, which ruled on Tuesday that the election posters of the »III.
Wegs «with the slogan» Hang the Greens «in Zwickau despite a ban in the city.
The court's stipulation, however, is that the right-wing extremist party's posters must be 100 meters away from the Greens' election campaigns.
The city of Zwickau announced on Tuesday that it would appeal this decision to the Bautzen Higher Administrative Court.
The aim of the poster campaign of the Greens is now, according to the party, for the »III.
Weg «impossible to keep this 100-meter distance.
The Green Association wants to send 200 election posters to Zwickau in the short term.
nek / dpa