A kindOn Thursday, Rome’s city councilors took the first step and recalled the four heads of the magistrate’s department.In a motion dated June 17, the four parties of the new coalition—the Green Party, the Social Democratic Party, the Liberal Democratic Party, and Volt—are Uwe Becker, Jan Schneider, Daniela Birkenfeld (all CDU) And Klaus Austerling (SPD) are here. The Hesse Municipal Law provides for simplified recall procedures after local elections to make it easier for the new political majority to change the government.
To this end, two consultations and votes are planned, the first of which will be held this Thursday. As expected, the vote was clear, and the heads of the CDU department voted against their own parliamentary group. The second ballot will be held after the city council’s summer vacation on September 8. The term of the head of the department will officially expire at the end of nearly two months today, so that new candidates can be selected. Until then, the former city councillor will remain in office. In general, this process must be completed on September 30, six months after the start of the new parliamentary term that began on April 1.
In the first deliberation on Thursday, the City Council increased the speaking time limit for each council group from the usual 10 minutes to 20 minutes, thus providing sufficient space for a comprehensive discussion on the dismissal of most long-serving department heads .
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For example, Nils Kößler, the head of the CDU Parliamentary Union, praised the outgoing department head of his party: City treasurer Becker is a “pilot”, even in difficult times. The new political opponent, the Green Party, also praised the leaders of the previous alliance. They were once members of the alliance, but its biggest partner, the CDU, is now in the opposition. As he said, Dimitrios Bakakis, the leader of the Green Group, wants “no accounting.” Ursula Bush, the leader of the SPD parliamentary caucus, warned those who were fired not to “smash too much porcelain in the disappointment and pain of parting, lest the earlier service be forgotten.” Obviously, this is the last time Becker, the city treasurer who criticized the new alliance.
FDP attacks Schneider
The 51-year-old Becker was still the mayor and head of the municipal finance, investment and church departments before being recalled. Green Party politician Bastian Bergerhoff will serve in the office of the city treasurer, who played a key role in establishing the Roman League. Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg (Green Party), the future head of integration, plans to serve as mayor.The chairman of the CDU district in Frankfurt is the second city councillor on Thursday Jan Schneider The first memory. The 40-year-old Frankfurter has served as a city councillor since 2013, initially as the head of the reform project department, and since 2016 as the head of the construction and real estate, reform projects, civic services and IT departments. Kessler, the head of the CDU Parliamentary Union, praised him as “the head of the innovation department.” However, Yanki Pürsün, the leader of the new FDP parliamentary group, said: “It is necessary to set up its own digital department.” The reminder was aimed at Schneider, the city councillor who was previously responsible for digitalization.
The third recalled head of the CDU department, 61-year-old Daniela Birkenfeld, has been the head of social affairs since 2007. Followed by Elke Voitl from the Green Party, who has been firmly rooted in local politics for many years as an office manager, including the head of the health department Stefan Majer (Green Party). In addition to the health department, Majel will temporarily take over the transportation department until he retires two years later due to old age.He succeeded the head of the Social Democratic Party Klaus Ostlin His term will officially end in one year. In order to treat the new majority in the alliance fairly, the 69-year-old Osterlin was also dismissed prematurely in the first resolution to make room for representatives of the Green Party.
