New government alliance planned in Frankfurt: The FDP would like to join a coalition with the Greens, SPD and Volt.
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The FDP is aware of its insignificance in the eyes of the Greens. Hesse is the federal state with the greatest density of political officials in the police authorities. The FAZ-Hauptwache looks at the topics of the day.
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In principle, too few people are interested in local politics, but in Frankfurt it is currently worthwhile to take a very close look. Here the Greens, who emerged as the strongest force in the local elections, no longer want to work together with their previous partner, the CDU. Instead, the party will start coalition talks with the SPD, FDP and the Volt party, which has recently moved into the Römer, which our colleague Mechthild Harting had researched exclusively at the end of last week. Now the exploratory commission has explained to the members of the Greens in detail how it proceeded. The essential finding: “The FDP is aware of its size.” What is meant is that it is aware of its insignificance in the eyes of the Greens. That should give the FDP food for thought, because so far nothing of their positions can be found in the ideas of the future coalition partners: Freedom and the market have apparently become foreign words. The FDP should reject the proposal to join this coalition, renegotiate it and force the election winner to really show their colors: Wouldn’t one much rather green-red-red? Or do you opt for a coalition with the CDU and FDP that really depicts the reality of life in a not so left-wing city and gives the SPD the opportunity to regenerate? Martin Benninghoff also spoke about these points with the Frankfurt CDU chairman Jan Schneider. With so much exciting reading material, one could easily become interested in politics.
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In turn, the question of whether the head post of the Hessian State Criminal Police Office will be filled by a political officer in the future suggests a broad discussion about whether the use of such officers in security agencies makes sense in general. Regardless of the discussion about the State Criminal Police Office (LKA), the opposition in the state parliament demands that the official status of the “normal” police presidents be checked again to determine whether it violates the judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court. According to this, political officials should only be employed in higher positions in the state apparatus – and as sparingly as possible. However, according to a recent survey, Hesse is the federal state with the greatest density of political officials in the police authorities. The FDP parliamentary group in the Hessian state parliament is in favor of not just filling the LKA post as “neutral”. The FDP also considers an amendment to be advisable with regard to the seven Hessian police presidents. So they still exist, the recognizable demands of the FDP, at least in the opposition in the state parliament.
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