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Mayor election: Palmer prevails with an absolute majority

2022-10-23T18:32:14.940Z


Mayor election: Palmer prevails with an absolute majority Created: 2022-10-23Updated: 2022-10-23, 8:20 p.m Boris Palmer (l) comes to the marketplace after his re-election and receives congratulations. © Bernd Weißbrod/dpa Germany's probably busiest mayor put everything on one card - and won. Against opposition from his own party, Boris Palmer wins the mayoral election with an absolute majority.


Mayor election: Palmer prevails with an absolute majority

Created: 2022-10-23Updated: 2022-10-23, 8:20 p.m

Boris Palmer (l) comes to the marketplace after his re-election and receives congratulations.

© Bernd Weißbrod/dpa

Germany's probably busiest mayor put everything on one card - and won.

Against opposition from his own party, Boris Palmer wins the mayoral election with an absolute majority.

Now he's bursting with strength - and has no plans to change his style.

Tübingen - Boris Palmer has been re-elected mayor of Tübingen.

He prevailed against his competitors with an absolute majority of 52.4 votes, as the city announced on Sunday evening after all polling stations had been counted.

Palmer ran as an independent candidate rather than for the Greens because of trouble with his party.

After the results were announced on the Tübingen market square, he first addressed his opponents: the election campaign was hard fought, but it was now important that disputes were settled one after the other.

His competitor Ulrike Baumgärtner (Greens) got 22 percent of the votes, Sofie Geisel (SPD, supported by the FDP) 21.4 percent of the votes.

All of the other six candidates received less than three percent of the votes.

Around 69,000 Tübingen residents were eligible to vote.

Voter turnout was unusually high at 62.6 percent.

"We may have set a Baden-Württemberg record," said Palmer.

He called the turnout sensational.

Palmer has been mayor for 16 years.

He had declared in advance that he no longer wanted to compete in the second ballot if he was not ahead in the first round.

The 50-year-old's membership of the Greens will be suspended until the end of 2023 due to arguments about breaking taboos and allegations of racism.

He also went into his relationship with his party at the marketplace.

On election day, he was in contact with Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck and Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (both Green), Palmer said.

His intention and his offer is to campaign for his party, to join and to uphold the values ​​​​that are important to him.

Ecology is the unifying bond of the Greens, which he will emphasize more in the future.

After winning the election, however, he made it clear that he had no intention of changing his style.

It's worth arguing in a democracy, said Palmer, and you shouldn't put everyone to sleep with asymmetric demobilization.

Tübingen agreed that they wanted to become climate-neutral by 2030, that they needed more affordable housing and that all children would once again have the best possible care options.

He wants to advance the ecological transformation.

dpa

Source: merkur

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