DMayor of Tubingen Boris Palmer (Greens) has requested through its lawyers that the Baden-Württemberg Association finally certify that the exclusion procedure against his parties is reasonable and submit the necessary application to the responsible arbitration committee. Palmer’s lawyer Rezzo Schlauch said in an interview with F.AZ that so far, the Palmer State Party has rejected “fair, legal and correct” procedures. Therefore, he submitted a “negative statement application” to the legal representatives of the two state chairpersons Sandra Detzer and Oliver Hildenbrand. According to the Civil Procedure Law, this can be used to stop a lawsuit that has allegedly started.
Palmer gets up in May Facebook Former football player Dennis Aogo defended racist throwing in a questionable way: “Aogo is a bad racist. Give women his black tail,” read the Facebook post. Aogo has previously been criticized for saying in a game analysis that a football team must “train to the point of being poisoned”, and the football player apologized shortly thereafter.
Following the publication of the post, Palmer wanted to ironically prove that the allegations of racism against Aogo were absurd. On May 8, 2021, Annalena Baerbock and representatives at a state party congress a few hours later, after Palmer initially refused to apologize for his “sarcasm” post, published procedures to support expulsion. Later he regretted the position. At the time, Palmer welcomed the party’s exclusion process because it would eventually invalidate the racism accusations made by his Green Party friends.
Criticism of the procedure
Palmer’s lawyers argued that the defense of the statement’s negative application is as follows: From the decision to exclude the partisanship process to today, the regional association has not yet initiated the necessary formal legal steps, but at the same time, Palmer is in a situation where the public is “facing serious deficiencies”. Threat Exclusion Program”. In addition, the two state chairpersons will harm Palmer in the “Green Internal Procedures for Nominating Green OB Candidates” in the fall of 2022. As a result, the dispute over jurisdiction has begun, so this matter will continue to be handled by the regional arbitration commission instead of the national arbitration commission.
But no fully qualified lawyer is a member of the regional arbitration committee. In addition, the term of office of the members has expired. “The overall situation of the parties in the litigation process can only come to the conclusion that the parties concentrate all their legal and communication efforts on denying that my client is a fair, legal and correct client. But this means that due to facts and For legal reasons, the whole thing is doomed to fail,” wrote hose In the statement that FAZ is available.
The background of the new legal dispute is also a dispute about whether the Green Party should reappoint Palmer as a candidate for mayor in 2022. The Green Zone Association decided in mid-October to clarify this issue through the primary election. However, so far, only Ulrike Baumgärtner, a former Palmer employee of the Green Zone, wants to face the primary election. At the end of October, the 42-year-old politician told the Schwäbisches Tagblatt newspaper to justify her participation in the primary election because she participated in the “party membership” request.
Palmer hopes to decide before the end of the year whether he will become the most successful Green Party mayor of Baden-Württemberg in the primary elections. Palmer and many of his friends find this shameful, because the strike vote is apparently used by some green bases and some officials to drive notorious critics of green identity politics and unpopular radical ecologists out of politics. Since the 49-year-old politician is still very popular among Tübingen citizens and his politics is recognized in the university town, Palmer is considering whether he will run as an independent candidate. It is not clear whether the Green Party will stick to the primary election under such circumstances.
