The result of the local elections in Darmstadt is available: Uffbasse for “left alliance”

• In the Local election in Darmstadt on March 14th became a new one City Parliament elected.
• The green-black coalition has no majority – hence there is new alliance options.
• Green want an “ecological solidarity development Darmstadts“.

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The preliminary result of the Local election in Darmstadt has the Trend result confirmed on Sunday evening: The Greens remain with a clear lead the strongest political force in the “science city”.

For Mayor Jochen Partsch’s party, 27.4 percent of the votes were counted. The Greens will in future be represented with 20 seats in the new city council. Compared to the 2016 election, the party lost more than two percentage points and one seat.

That should also be with the establishment of two new electoral lists, which represent several citizens’ initiatives, and the first accession of the party Volt related. The pro-European party According to the preliminary result of the election, five of the total of 71 seats in the new one will be immediately Darmstadt city parliament occupy.

Result of the local elections in Darmstadt: SPD stronger than the CDU

As the second strongest political force, the SPD the CDU from. For the Social democrats 16.7 percent voted. In 2016 it was a little more at 17.2 percent. The new SPD-Faction will have as many as before with twelve members.

The CDU lost more than two and a half percentage points to 15.6 percent and eleven seats, two fewer than before. The clear loser is that AfDwho lost more than four and a half percentage points and four seats and will only have three votes left.

Volt, The Party, WGD and Free Voters new in the city parliament

The Left (5 seats), Uffbasse (5), the previous cooperation partner of the green-black coalition and the FDP (4) were able to maintain the number of their seats. The electoral association Learner lost one seat and will only be represented by two city councilors in the city council. One of them is Uwiga chairman Helmut Klett, who was already a city councilor and wanted to become Darmstadt mayor three times.

The pro-European party Volt will be represented for the first time with five city councilors in the city parliament, the satirical party The party with two and the Voting Community Darmstadt (WGD) and the Free voter each with a city councilor.

Exploratory talks in Darmstadt: Greens speak to the CDU first

The Government formation could be exciting in the next few weeks: Hildegard Förster-Heldmann, one of the two chairmen of the Greens, announced on Tuesday evening in an interview with the Frankfurter Rundschau that the party would invite exploratory talks in March. It is planned to work with the previous coalition partner CDU to have the first conversation.

Because the previous one green-black alliance with 32 votes no longer has its own majority and also a two-party alliance between the Greens and the SPD and also one Jamaica Coalition out Greens, CDU and FDP does not get the required 36 votes, a third parliamentary group would have to step in as a coalition or cooperation partner.

Greens: “Tailwind for the ecological and solidary future of Darmstadt”

The previous one Cooperation alliance out Greens, of the CDU and the parliamentary group Uffbasse would have a majority as well as a majority with 36 votes coalition out Greens, SPD and FDP. On Triple Alliance out Greens and SPD either with the Left, Uffbasse or Volt would have 37 of the 71 votes. And a Triple constellation out Greens, SPD and CDU would get a comfortable majority of 43 votes.

The Darmstadt party executive Greens announced on Tuesday evening that Election result give “tailwind for the ecological solidarity future of Darmstadt”. The party also wants to continue to work “for reliable, responsible urban development”.

Result of the local elections in Darmstadt: Greens again the strongest parliamentary group

The citizens of the city would have that Greens elected for the third time in a row as the strongest parliamentary group in the city council.

Despite strong competition and increased voter turnout, the party gained around 1,000 voters. Nevertheless they lost Greens in the election last Sunday more than two percent and lost one seat.

Greens for an “ecological solidarity development in Darmstadt”

The party executive sees the election result “as a clear mandate to take responsibility for discussing the chances of forming a stable coalition with other democratic groups in order to further develop ecological solidarity Darmstadts to master “, it continues in the announcement of the party. The party will accept the order of the voters “with humility and creative courage”.

GreensBoard spokeswoman Hildegard Förster-Heldmann, who heads the party board together with Jürgen Deicke, commented on the issues Climate protection, of the Traffic turnaround and a “open, solidarity urban society“Will in future“ no way bypassing ”, said. The election results clearly show that the groups that support the Traffic turnaround advocated having a large majority in the electorate. That must “also be reflected in the government and its actions,” says Förster-Heldmann.

The CDU as the previous coalition partner of Greens had, however, positioned themselves as a more car-friendly party during the election campaign, opposed the widespread introduction of Tempo 30 and again the construction of a East bypass from Darmstadt brought up what the Greens strictly refuse.

Green chairman Deicke: Darmstadt needs a “design majority”

GreensBoard spokesman Jürgen Deicke also announced the basis for Soundings and Coalition negotiations be the party’s manifesto. For the Greens, according to Deicke, it is “indispensable” that the city of Darmstadt needs a “shaping majority” in the city council that has the “discursive intelligence” in dialogue with the population, but also the parliamentary power in the implementation of infrastructure decisions bring up.

The dynamic development of the city demands, in addition to the already initiated strengthening of the social and school infrastructure, a clear course for economic development and the expansion of the traffic infrastructure, said Deicke. So they searched Greens now for “reliable partners in the new city council”. Deicke: “On this basis we will hold talks with the democratic, constructive forces of the newly elected city council.”

Uffbasse advocates a “left alliance” in Darmstadt

The parliamentary group Uffbasse (the name stands for “independent faction of free citizens upright spontaneously subculturally idiosyncratic”) announced on Wednesday that the faction was pleased that “left politics in Darmstadt as a whole has a large share of the vote”. Green, SPD, The left and Uffbasse together would have achieved 57.4 percent of the vote. The election result of the four parliamentary groups “clearly points to a left alliance”.

How exactly the new alliance will look like remains to be seen, it says in the Uffbasse-Message. The group could, however, also “imagine one Green-Red-Red City Government to heat up properly as an opposition ”.

Uffbasse: “Greens could have used stronger thought sheets”

The Uffbasse Group speculates at the same time about a “Rainbow coalition out Greens, Uffbasse, Volt, The left and The party“To” follow the signs of the times “. Such a curious alliance would have “a solid majority with a total of 37 seats and would be a nice sign of more courage in politics,” they say Uffbasse.

“In view of the concrete desert, the felled trees, the delayed digitization in schools and the missed modernization of the administration” would have Greens in the opinion of the previous cooperation partner, “can certainly use a stronger thought sheet”. “But even so, we hope that the election will give people a thoughtful vote,” says the left-wing voters’ association.

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