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Mayor election in Tübingen: Palmer wins an absolute majority

2022-10-23T19:37:52.680Z


Mayor election in Tübingen: Palmer wins an absolute majority Created: 2022-10-23Updated: 2022-10-23 9:26 p.m Boris Palmer (l) comes to the marketplace after his re-election and receives congratulations. © Bernd Weißbrod/dpa He put everything on one card - and wins hands down. Against opposition from his own party, Boris Palmer wins the mayoral election with an absolute majority. Now he's bursti


Mayor election in Tübingen: Palmer wins an absolute majority

Created: 2022-10-23Updated: 2022-10-23 9:26 p.m

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

© Bernd Weißbrod/dpa

He put everything on one card - and wins hands down.

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

Now he's bursting with strength - and doesn't even think about changing 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.

Hundreds of citizens gathered in front of City Hall to watch the count of the result - and to congratulate Palmer.

But boos could also be heard.

After the victory on the Tübingen market square, Palmer first addressed his opponents: The election campaign was hard fought, but now it was important that the dispute was settled.

It is the essence of democracy that everyone accepts the result of an election, whether they like it or not.

He hopes that the people of Tübingen can now stand together and that everyone will do their best for the city.

“I admit that I would wish, once the election was over, that the result would not be greeted with boos.

That is always an evaluation of the other people who cast their votes," Palmer told the German Press Agency after his victory.

"But that was maybe 5 out of 500. There are always some that you don't understand."

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.

The mayor thanked his supporters.

"It is an unusual situation to go into such an election campaign without a party behind you." Many people would have stood up for him.

Palmer's competitor Ulrike Baumgärtner (Greens) only 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.

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 said, he was in contact with Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck and Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (both Greens).

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, Palmer also made it clear that he had no intention of changing his style.

"Why would a mayor who is being elected for the third time with an absolute majority change his style?" he said.

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 living space and that all children should have optimal childcare options, said Palmer to applause.

He wants to advance the ecological transformation.

Palmer also thanked his family, who were with him at City Hall.

His wife did a lot.

"When things like that are in the newspaper, it's not easy to let it all drain away when hatred and death threats are being spread." His 81-year-old mother was also at the market square.

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At the end he went into the Ukraine war.

Russia and Ukraine are currently debating who will be the next to throw the first "dirty nuclear bomb".

"I'm very upset about this," Palmer said.

“That is why democracy is so precious.

Let us defend them against all enemies of democracy wherever they rise.”

The election winner then invited to the "Happy Hour" in a Tübingen restaurant at the town hall.

Drinks are free for everyone for an hour.

dpa

Source: merkur

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