Unique Case: Municipality Hires Lawyer to Defend Against Council Member

For a municipality to hire a lawyer to defend itself against a member of the municipal council must be unique in the world. That’s exactly what happened in Lonnerstadt. In meetings of the council, one can sense how cool the relationship between the mayor, the majority of the council and the now non-partisan municipal councilor Giovanni Daniele is. But let’s start at the beginning: In the mayoral elections in March 2020, Daniele ran as a CSU candidate against Regina Bruckmann (FW) and Horst Gäck (SPD/UBL). The …