The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

Tübingen: Boris Palmer will not run again for the Greens as mayor

2022-01-18T10:06:25.685Z


The Greens are pursuing expulsion proceedings against Boris Palmer. The Mayor of Tübingen now announces that he will draw the consequences for a possible re-election.


Enlarge image

Boris Palmer

Photo: ULMER / imago images

The Greens politician Boris Palmer will not run again for the election of the mayor of Tübingen.

In a letter from the 49-year-old to the Greens city association, the 49-year-old said he could not take part in the nomination process because "the party exclusion process is now beginning."

The "Stuttgarter Zeitung" reported first.

The Baden-Württemberg Greens had decided in May last year to have Palmer expelled from the party.

Palmer had previously made racist statements about former national soccer player Dennis Aogo in a Facebook post from the Greens' point of view.

According to Palmer, the statements were meant to be satirical.

Investigations into this were discontinued in September.

Palmer had previously crossed paths with his party with statements on refugee policy and corona measures.

It is "logically and factually impossible to operate a process for nomination and exclusion at the same time," Palmer said in the letter.

A candidate cannot be both "nominated and disqualified."

Palmer initially declined to comment on the report when asked.

Because of the threat of Palmer's party expulsion, who has governed in Tübingen since 2010, the Greens city association decided to hold a primary election for the next mayoral candidate.

The mayor of the Weilheim district of Tübingen, Ulrike Baumgärtner, has already applied for it.

The incumbent has so far left it open whether Palmer wants to run again as an independent candidate in Tübingen.

as /AFP

Source: spiegel

All news articles on 2022-01-18

You may like

News/Politics 2024-02-14T07:09:55.460Z
News/Politics 2024-02-13T09:50:37.834Z
News/Politics 2024-02-02T12:01:15.771Z
News/Politics 2024-02-04T08:11:17.465Z

Trends 24h

News/Politics 2024-03-28T06:04:53.137Z

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.