Official: BaWü-Greens want to exclude Palmer - and present a long list of "taboos"

The Greens in Baden-Württemberg are serious: They want to exclude Boris Palmer from the party.

The country leaders present a long list of allegations.

Stuttgart / Tübingen - Now it's official: The Greens * in Baden-Württemberg want to exclude the controversial Mayor of Tübingen Boris Palmer from the party.

The state executive has now applied for the Tübingen OB to be excluded from the party.

Palmer, in office since 2007, is considered one of the most prominent but also most controversial politicians in his party.

Greens want to exclude Palmer from the party: application has been sent - country leaders: "For years provocations"

A spokeswoman for the Südwest-Grünen announced on Monday in Stuttgart that the corresponding application comprised 33 pages and had been sent to the responsible district arbitration committee of the Greens in Tübingen and Palmer's lawyer.

The Commission must now decide on the timing of the procedure.

Palmer and his lawyer Rezzo Schlauch recently complained about delaying tactics by the state party *.

The Greens want to present an OB candidate for the upcoming election in Tübingen in the foreseeable future.

The state chairmen Sandra Detzer and Oliver Hildenbrand declared: "Through his provocations that have been occurring for years, Boris Palmer has deliberately and seriously violated the principles and the order of our party." It is not about individual cases, the two explained.

Green without Palmer?

"Long list of calculated slip-ups"

“We are dealing with years of history and a long list of calculated slips and staged taboos.

Boris Palmer primarily uses the issues of immigration, refugee and human rights policy to further distance himself from the line of our party, utterance after utterance. "

Detzer and Hildenbrand went on to say: “He did serious damage to our party with his populist and destructive statements.

We have no place for someone who flirts with racism and stirs up resentment. "

Palmer has also repeatedly expressed disapproval of the right of adoption for homosexual couples.

Even with his statements that the lockdown would protect people who will soon die anyway, "Boris Palmer is far outside the programmatic framework of Alliance 90 / The Greens and probably also outside of the Basic Law," explained Detzer and Hildenbrand.

Palmer has been "for years against the fundamental political values ​​of the party".

Palmer before the Greens expulsion?

Post to Aogo was stumbling block

At the beginning of May, a party convention of the Greens in Baden-Württemberg decided to initiate party regulatory proceedings against Palmer. The reason for this decision was a Facebook post by Palmer about the former German national soccer player Dennis Aogo, in which the OB uses the so-called N-word. This term is used today to describe a racist term used in Germany for black people. Palmer asserted, however, that his statement was meant ironically *.

The dispute between the party leadership and the controversial but nationally known politician has actually been smoldering for much longer.

As early as 2020, high-ranking party friends suggested that the Tübinger move to another party.

During the refugee crisis in 2015, Palmer had already spoken out in favor of deportations to war zones in Syria and Afghanistan and, if necessary, armed closings of the EU borders - much to the displeasure of his party.

In 2018, the term he coined “human rights fundamentalism” was at least mentioned in the free choice of Unword of the Year.

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