Darmstadt: “The party” pulls the emergency brake against the AfD

• ofJens Joachim

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“The Party” city councilor Mandy Neumann joins the Uwiga / WGD faction and rejoins the party in order to keep the AfD out of all committees of the city parliament.

The Satirical party “The Party” is always good for surprises: Im Local election campaign advertised the party in Darmstadt with slogans like “Promote local economy! Drink beer from here! ”,“ Catenary for cycle paths! ”Or simply with the message“ We love you ”for the votes of voters.

“The Party” has two city councilors in Darmstadt

The ironic and downright ingratiating scam was quite successful. The satirists were able to increase their share of the vote sevenfold compared to 2016 from 0.3 to a full 2.2 percent. As a result, Holger Eisenblätter and Mandy Neumann became the new City Parliament belong.

During the inaugural City Council on April 22nd there was one Drawing of lots about the Filling of committee seatsbecause both the AfD and the joint parliamentary group of the Uwiga voters ‘association and the Darmstadt voters’ community (WGD) had three seats. But city councilor Yücel Akdeniz (Greens) did not draw the Uwiga / WGD lot, but that of the AfD.

Darmstadt: “The party” pulls the emergency brake against the AfD

Found that “The party”-The city council Neumann is no longer funny. She then pulled the one she propagated „Bullshitnotbremse“, joined the Uwiga / WGD parliamentary group to keep the AfD out of the committees. The three Uwiga / WGD city councilors then proposed Neumann as a member of the culture committee, Eisenblätter for the social committee and Christina Dietrich, the only city councilor of the Free Voters, for the school committee.

But after all the committees had been constituted a few days ago without the participation of the AfD, Neumann surprisingly announced that it was initiated by her „Bullshitnotbremse“ had “proven to be very efficient”, she wanted to use the “successful day” of her “still young politician career” as an opportunity to announce her departure from the parliamentary group again.

“The party” prevents AfD seats in committees in Darmstadt

Rejoiced with a wink “The party”-Chairman Mario Pingel on Twitter on Wednesday, after the AfD had been “driven out of the committees”, the voters were “very much in agreement with the promotion of democracy by Mandy Neumann”.

Neumann’s exit from the parliamentary group now meant that at the beginning of the most recent city council meeting it had to be drawn again to determine which parliamentary group could be represented in the committees in the future. But again the lot fell in favor of the AfD.

Darmstadt: “The Party” city councilor rejoins the Uwiga / WGD parliamentary group

Neumann announced on Friday to the FR that it would now rejoin the Uwiga / WGD parliamentary group. This should again mean that the AfD is not allowed to occupy the committee seats.

The Uwiga / WGD chairman Helmut Klett informed the office of City Councilor Akdeniz on Friday evening: “Fortunately, Ms. Mandy Neumann has decided to join our parliamentary group again.” so velcro.

In the meantime, the future coalition of the Greens, CDU and Volt has created the first personal facts. The three parties had to look after the Local election agreed on exploratory key points after several discussions. The SPD and FDP have already criticized the emerging “green-black-purple alliance”. (Jens Joachim)

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