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City parliament is serious: Frankfurt's mayor is voted out

2022-07-14T07:26:38.779Z


City parliament is serious: Frankfurt's mayor is voted out Created: 07/14/2022, 09:17 By: Dennis Pfeiffer-Goldmann In Frankfurt, the coalition factions clear the way to vote out Mayor Peter Feldmann. His resignation offer is off the table. Frankfurt – Now things are getting serious for Peter Feldmann (SPD). A majority of city councilors in Frankfurt want to vote out the mayor on Thursday (July


City parliament is serious: Frankfurt's mayor is voted out

Created: 07/14/2022, 09:17

By: Dennis Pfeiffer-Goldmann

In Frankfurt, the coalition factions clear the way to vote out Mayor Peter Feldmann.

His resignation offer is off the table.

Frankfurt – Now things are getting serious for Peter Feldmann (SPD).

A majority of city councilors in Frankfurt want to vote out the mayor on Thursday (July 14).

He did not succeed in convincing city politicians of his offer of resignation at the end of January.

The decision on the immediate deselection was made early on Wednesday evening (July 13) in the parliamentary groups of the Greens, SPD, FDP and Volt coalition.

After some lengthy internal discussions, they decided to accept the application made last week by all their city councilors and those of the opposition CDU, as reported by fnp.de.

The deselection is to take place on Thursday in the plenary session starting at 4 p.m. in the Römer.

City council leader Hilime Arslaner-Gölbasi (Greens) is expected to call for Feldmann's deselection around 6:30 p.m.

Two thirds of the 93 city councilors have to vote for it, i.e. 62. Together, the coalition and the CDU have 71 votes.

However, in the vote of no confidence against the mayor in June, other factions also voted against the head of the town hall.

At the time, he only had eleven support votes.

Peter Feldmann should go: The city councilors in Frankfurt want to decide today by voting out and not by resigning.

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Frankfurt: Peter Feldmann advises against voting out himself

Feldmann had tried to avert the decision on Wednesday.

The mayor's office said there had been attempts to talk, according to the city councillors.

The Frankfurt mayor is also said to have tried to persuade individual members of parliament from the SPD and the Greens in telephone calls in order to bring down the majority.

Feldmann announced his resignation at the end of January last week and made two concrete proposals for the procedure on Friday.

He withdrew one of them on Monday.

The coalition and the CDU then said that there was a lack of trust that the mayor was serious about his offer.

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The fear of backing down stems from the fact that Feldmann himself assumes that he will be acquitted in the corruption process over the Awo affair.

The proceedings are scheduled to run before the district court from mid-October to the end of November.

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Feldmann himself advises city councilors against voting out: "I wouldn't do it if I were you," he said in an interview with the Frankfurter Rundschau published on Wednesday afternoon.

The parliamentarians "would have to be responsible for a referendum costing 1.6 million euros."

Because his resignation offer for January is already there.

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The fact that the trust between him and the city councilors had "severely suffered" for months was "a pity, but not to be changed".

It is more important to him that the citizens trust him.

"And I definitely have that feeling," explains Feldmann.

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SPD faction leader Ursula Busch said on Wednesday that he was probably disconnected from the real mood.

Green party leader Tina Zapf-Rodriguez, on the other hand, perceives "that there is a great deal of resentment against the mayor".

She explains this together with her co-group leader Dimitrios Bakakis in an interview with this newspaper.

"And this public outrage will continue."

It is true that the deselection process will be "expensive and destructive".

"The mayor himself is responsible for this," emphasizes Zapf-Rodriguez.

Because after the decision of the city councillors, the mayor can accept this deselection within a week in order to prevent a referendum.

Feldmann announced to the FR that he wanted to give up "prominent events" but "get back to regular work".

Above all, he wants to do more home visits and the like and push his political issues forward, such as housing and the Paulskirchen anniversary.

(Dennis Pfeiffer-Goldmann)

Source: merkur

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