After much back and forth: the district office in Berlin-Reinickendorf is now complete – Berlin
In a mammoth meeting that lasted almost seven hours, a small miracle finally happened in the Reinickendorf district council meeting on Wednesday evening: the district office was completed after much back and forth.
In the past meetings of the District Assembly (BVV), the Reinickendorfer traffic light from the SPD, Greens and FDP disdained the candidate for the post of Vice Mayor and City Councilor for Citizens’ Services and Social Affairs, Emine Demirbüken-Wegner (CDU).
The reason given by politicians in the counting community was a lack of trust – and a cover of the magazine of the CDU local association Reinickendorf-West, which was found to be problematic. On it was a hammer falling on the burning Paracelsus bath. The Wittenauer Bad has not been used since 2019 and is to be renovated. There was talk of building modular accommodation for refugees there.
Demirbüken-Wegner’s persistent non-election also stood in the way of the other two candidates: Harald Muschner as city councilor for sport, school and facility management, and Julia Schrod-Thiel as city councilor for regulatory affairs, both CDU.
Thus, those elected to the district office are already dying – Uwe Brockhausen (SPD), district mayor and at the same time city councilor for finances, personnel and culture, Korinna Stephan (Greens), city councilor for urban development, traffic and the environment, and Alexander Ewers (SPD), city councilor for youth, health and family – since mid-November, they have been taking over the departments of the three who have not yet been elected.
“All of this is unforgettable, including this day today.”
The district office was thus able to function, but the understaffing should not result in more than a temporary solution.
In the meantime, Demirbüken-Wegner has distanced himself from the controversial cover. This and further discussions with the counting community should have paved the way for their election.
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And after a hanging game between the years, since Wednesday the nuns next to her also Muschner and Schrod-Thiel have their place in the district office safe.
Demirbüken-Wegner said everything when she was confirmed in the BVV: “That is unforgettable, also this day today.”