OB election campaign: Rottmann’s vision for Frankfurt
Fewer cars: Manuela Rottmann is committed to more cyclists like here on the Öder Weg.
Image: Frank Rumpenhorst
Manuela Rottmann opens the election campaign for the mayor’s office at the Green Party’s New Year’s reception. To kick things off, she invited mayors from European metropolises, albeit only virtually, thereby showing her vision for Frankfurt.
Chere Manuel Rottmann‘ rang out from the speakers. It is the voice of Grégory Doucet, French Green Party politician and mayor of Lyon since 2020. Doucet is present via video message at this New Year’s reception of the Frankfurt Greens, which marks the start of the election campaign of Frankfurt’s mayoral candidate Manuela Rottmann. He, like the mayors of Milan, Budapest and Bonn, all of whom are Green politicians, are declaring that they support Rottmann’s candidacy in Frankfurt. “We,” says Doucet, “are striving for a common vision in Frankfurt and Lyon: a new model of ecological and solidarity-based prosperity in Milan.” Mayor Beppe Sala adds that global phenomena – from social and economic crises – especially climate change are becoming visible in the cities . But it is also the cities where change is taking place and innovative solutions are being created “to improve the lives of millions of people”.
Rottmann is the main person at this reception, addressed this Thursday evening in the Palais Frankfurt, but as the last word to members and invited guests from culture, universities and business, i.e. from the much-cited urban society. Previously, Frankfurt’s mayor Nargess Eskandari Grünberg and Hesse’s Minister of Science, Angela Dorn (also a Green Party politician), got in the mood for the Green Party’s mayoral election campaign. Rottmann initially warns all those who are taking part in an event organized by the Greens for the first time. “We may not be able to fulfill your worst fears,” says the former Frankfurt city councilor, who has been a member of the Bundestag since 2017. In their opinion, the wild, rebellious times of the Greens are over. “There used to be more lametta.”