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Mayor Jochen Partsch celebrates his 60th birthday


Moment of happiness: Jochen Partsch and Minister of Art Angela Dorn celebrate the UNESCO decision to designate the Mathildenhöhe as a World Heritage Site.
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On his 60th birthday, which he celebrates on Friday, Jochen Partsch will not be able to reveal whether he will be running again for the mayoral election in Darmstadt in 2023. He would probably like to.

Darmstadt ⋅ Jochen Partsch, who turns 60 today, does not want to reveal whether he will run again next year in Darmstadt for the election of the mayor. However, if you talk to the Green politician about what has been achieved in the past twelve years in office and what he believes still needs to be done in Darmstadt, you quickly get the impression that he is very keen to do it again . Apparently, his job continues to bring him much more joy and validation than frustration. This may also be due to the fact that even the things he gets upset about – and Partsch can do that by every trick in the book – are more of a fuel for him than an obstacle.

In May, Partsch, who studied social sciences in Göttingen, wants to let people know whether he will stand for re-election in 2023. He has proven that he can win elections. In 2011 he clearly prevailed against the Social Democrat and incumbent Walter Hoffmann in the run-off election with 69.1 percent. In 2017, he managed to prevail with 50.4 percent in the first ballot, of course also benefiting from the fact that the CDU did not have a candidate and supported Partsch.

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