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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.
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