widthAhlkampf is the time when Berlin-Mitte and Perleberg-Lübzow meet, the capital meets the province. Politicians traveled around the country in their campaigns. Even in the smallest places, posters of local candidates are hung on lampposts, who wants to be elected and who wants to go to Greater Berlin. During the election campaign, politicians bite the sausages at rifle festivals, etc., and usually record their connections with the motherland and down-to-earth performance-there are currently many corresponding photos of politicians, including the Social Democratic Party’s prime minister candidate O. Ralph Schultz.The Social Democratic Party even won the election with sausages-“Curry Sausage is the Social Democratic Party” slogan. Hannello Kraft In 2012, the key to the Düsseldorf State Chancellery was one meter.
If you want to be a German boss, you must take a local cattle tour beforehand. This is what voters want. There is no doubt that the country will also decide on an election: the second citizen of this country lives in a city with 5,000 to 50,000 inhabitants.
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Germany is a community, a small town, and a federal state.This is often praised by the highest political authorities, but when political campaign It’s over, and the black luxury sedan from Pellerberg has rushed over. So the question is: Do politicians really know where real life is happening?
The accusations that politicians only care about big city issues, gender, vegan nutrition, and bike lanes are popular and usually cheap. Because the vast majority of politicians come from places with 5,000 or 50,000 residents. Members are divided into two categories: Members who directly win the constituency are the little kings. Then the others. If you are there a lot, you can only win one constituency, showing that you are not just spending ten minutes at the club festival. The citizens have realized this. Those who don’t care will soon be replaced.
Of course, when you spend a long time under the dome of the Reichstag in Berlin, the political views of this country will change. Citizens and local leaders may not even understand that this kind of music is not only played in Berlin. Only recently, during the flood disaster in Ahr, did the district administrator’s task become tragically clear again. He is the first and highest-level crisis manager on the scene. So he shoulders a huge responsibility. Or in a corona crisis: district managers and field leaders maintain medical care. The severely shaken Heinsburg district chief, Stephan Pusch, used social media to spread encouraging messages to citizens. efficient.
Local politicians are usually seldom appreciated. It is easy to find frustrated volunteer mayors complaining about their pain. Meager allowances, but angry farmers and rampant state and federal regulations. Many local politicians have even received verbal and real threats and attacks.
What is life like outside the big city? Very different, it can be said with certainty. Is this even “more real” than life in big cities? There are clichés everywhere. You just need to look carefully. Two examples. My colleagues Timo Steppat, Daniel Blum and Kathrin Jakob are on their way to the FAZ podcast series about the regional federal elections between Cloppenburg and Vechta. The region is dominated by agriculture, many citizens believe in Catholicism, and fewer people leave the church than anywhere else.This CDU Here is as strong as a bear. They don’t take much of the Green Party here.
Oldenburger Münsterland, as the area is called, is the area of ”neck steak eaters”.Last year, the leader of the alliance said Ralph BrinkhouseIt is these “neck steak eaters”, so-called normal people, that are the backbone of our society. Brinkhouse responded to his party colleague Ole von Beust, who was the first mayor of Hamburg. Not long ago, he said: “CDU is still considered to be the side of the internal combustion engine, pig neck meat and work until you give up.” Von Beust once wanted to make the CDU become more modern, more urban, and greener. Brinkhouse countered that he obviously did not want to alienate the regulars of the CDU.
Many political parties ask themselves this question: How modern and traditional should a person be? Is life in the countryside backward, and does the city show us the future? No, of course not. So this is the second example: Our Baden-Württemberg correspondent Rüdiger Soldt was in Upper Swabian some time ago. The region was once firmly in the hands of the CDU. But local politicians have ignored (want) that some things are changing. Many citizens hope to continue to preserve the fine traditions. But they sometimes see better results in the hands of the Green Party. The Green Party took root.
Political consultant Daniel Dettling handles the interaction between the local and global levels. He said that the locals gained strength in the corona crisis. Therefore, the future belongs to “inclusive localism”. New skills are being discovered in regions that have long seemed cut off from technological progress and globalization. Dettling advocates that the overall problem is considered larger, but the local problem is more localized. Then the public’s recognition of political decisions will also increase. Because they already trust their mayor and local politicians very much.
It is actually a good topic for the next federal government. I asked myself: What is Horst Seehofer’s Department of Homeland Security actually doing?
