A bang in Franconia: the Free Voters Association turns its back on Aiwanger - "The barrel has overflowed"
Created: 01/06/2022, 09:12 AM
From: Thomas Eldersch
Hubert Aiwanger, head of the Free Voters in Bavaria, ran away from the Nuremberg city association.
© Sven Simon / Imago Images / Symbolbild
The Nuremberg City Association of Free Voters and the parent party are going their separate ways with immediate effect.
Above all, the behavior of party leader Aiwanger was decisive for the move.
Nuremberg - The rifts are deep and have become insurmountable.
The consequence: the city association of free voters is leaving the state association.
From now on they want to shape city politics under the name “Free Voting Community Nuremberg *”.
Association head Jürgen Dörfler is also personally disappointed by the politics of party leader Hubert Aiwanger *.
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City Association of Nuremberg leaves the Free Voters: Members voted for it
On Tuesday, January 4th, the Nuremberg City Association of Free Voters announced. They no longer want to be part of the Aiwanger Free Voters Party. “The barrel just overflowed. In particular, the subservience to Markus Söder * and the zigzag course around the corona vaccinations led to our decision, "City Councilor Jürgen Dörfler explains the decision to
infranken.de
. Already before Christmas there was a vote among the city association members about staying in the party. "81 percent of our members in Nuremberg voted to leave the regional association of free voters," said Dörfler. 90 percent of the members took part in the vote.
Shortly after the turn of the year, the declaration of resignation reached the party leadership by registered mail.
It is still unclear whether the exit will be the subject of a virtual Epiphany meeting of Free Voters on January 6th.
According to infranken.de
, press spokesman Christoph Hollender did not know
anything about the renegade city association at least until Tuesday.
City association chief Dörfler disappointed with the work of the free voter ministers
The longtime city councilor and companion of Hubert Aiwanger, Dörfler, also gives very specific reasons why the rift occurred.
The unsuccessful federal election * and, in his opinion, the party leader's skepticism about vaccinations, would have disappointed him very much and caused anger in the city.
In addition, the three free voter ministers (Aiwanger, Piazolo and Glauber) have so far had little influence on the politics of the Söder government.
The ministers would “diligently complete appointments, but not set any political accents”, Dörfler told
infranken.de
.
In 2008, Dörfler and Aiwanger (left) were still green when they jointly supported the Landtag candidate Gabriele Pauli.
© Daniel Karmann / dpa
The Corona and vaccination skepticism Aiwangers would have cost the Free Voters a few votes, criticizes Dörfler further.
He also offered himself to the maverick milieu.
In general, the behavior of the economics minister around the election was not well received.
Members of the city association were embarrassed and Dörfler also accuses the FW boss of “accumulating offices”.
He would no longer embody the basic idea of the free voters.
Markus Söder is celebrating his birthday
.
So a special surprise was waiting for him in his office.
Aiwanger is also supposed to do politics for city dwellers
Another criticism of Aiwanger is its focus on agriculture.
Dörfler said in an interview with infranken.de
that he was not willing to at least begin to become a “big city party”
.
As Minister of Economic Affairs, that is clearly not enough.
He has the feeling that one only wants to keep the government alliance running until the state election in 2023.
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He and his colleagues now want to concentrate on making politics for the citizens of Nuremberg.
In any case, there were hardly any points of contact with the parent party.
There was little money, but a lot of work from the regional association of free voters.
Now, as the “Free Voters' Community Nuremberg”, something should change, said Dörfler.
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