Feature photo: Heilbronn town hall in acrylic by Wolfgang Loesche
You have to let that sink in first, shortly before the election and once again much too late, a few older gentlemen sit together in a quiet little room in the Heilbronn town hall under the direction of the mayor and decide for Heilbronn how the local council election campaign should take place .
In addition to the mayor, this illustrious circle, which sometimes also calls itself the “Council of Elders”, includes: Rainer Hinderer from the SPD, Thomas Randecker from the CDU, Holger Kimmerle from Alliance 90/The Greens, Dr. Raphael Benner from the AfD and Nico Weinman from the FDP. By the way, this is where they are Dr. Hans Hoffmann-The majority clearly understands what, as we can now see, also has an impact on our democracy today.
When these old white men sat together to judge the weal and woe of the upcoming local council election campaign, whereby the decision was made democratically by exactly those who will benefit most from their own decisions and this in a “dark “In a room somewhere in the town hall, closed to the public, without the participation of an electoral committee provided for by law, some parties and voter groups involved in the election campaign had long since prepared their election campaign and procured all campaign materials, as they had in previous years.
“The election committee is the body responsible for preparing and conducting an election. The election committee controls all steps of the election and announces the election results. Members of the election committee may not stand as candidates in an election. Further basis for the appointment of an election committee can be found in the respective electoral regulations, statutes or the applicable law.”
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And as already written here in the blog, everything that led us Free Voters to success in 2019 is now forbidden.
Long live Heilbronn democracy and Hans Hoffman grinning at us all!
Meanwhile it's spinning Theodor Heuss around the grave in the Stuttgart forest cemetery.
"What did Heilbronn give me? Democracy as a way of life. This is the heritage of this city. And what does democracy mean as a way of life? But only this: to meet people as people, no matter who they are and where they come from.”
THEODOR HEUSS, AS QUOTED IN THE MUSEUM IN BRACKENHEIM
Everything was the same and not everything was better before. Just look at the many examples in the 19th century - local, national, international...