There are 20 candidates to choose from – more than ever before
The ballot paper for the mayor election in Frankfurt is ready. It’s bigger than ever, because there are 20 candidates to choose from.
Frankfurt – The ballot paper for the mayor election on March 5 is 54.6 centimeters long – no wonder, after all, 20 candidates have to fit on it. In the previous record election in 2018, twelve people ran for office, and since the first direct election of a Frankfurt mayor in 1995, a mayoral election document had never been this long.
Actually, there was even one more candidate – however, the 21st applicant only came to the meeting of the election committee shortly before the end of the deadline to find out after filling out the application documents that he only had six minutes to get the necessary 186 supporter signatures obtain. “One election proposal could not be approved due to a lack,” commented municipal returning officer Tarkan Akman dryly at yesterday’s press conference.
Twelve candidates from parties or groups of voters are on the list of candidates, eight are individual candidates. Manuela Rottmann, who was head of department from 2006 to 2012, will stand for the Greens. Former city treasurer Uwe Becker is running for the CDU. The SPD relies on Mike Josef, head of department since 2016. The left is trying with Daniela Mehler-Würzbach, since 2021 in the city parliament, the FDP with Yanki Pürsün, city councilor from 2002 to 2011 and since 2016. For the AfD chairman Andreas Lobenstein in the race, for the BFF parliamentary group manager Mathias Pfeiffer. The party relies on Katharina Tanczos, who will represent Prof. Dr. dr Bembel is a candidate. Tilo Schwichtenberg will be there for the garden party.
Mayor election in Frankfurt: 16 men and four women are candidates
While the number of votes for their party in the last local election determined their place on the list for the first nine candidates, the places of the individual candidates and those of parties not represented in the city parliament were drawn by lot. Tram driver Peter Wirth alias Bahnbabo follows in 10th place, followed by Yamòs Camara for the Free Party in 11th place Frankfurt and in 12th place Niklas Pauli, the chairman of the allotment garden association in Riederwald.
Behind him are ferryman Sven Junghans, who has already stood as a single candidate in the local elections, and forwarding agent Feng Xu, who until recently on his homepage called for people to think about whether their “own immune power” against Corona isn’t better than a vaccination that Creator of the green sauce festival Maja Wolff, the entrepreneur Akhtar Khurrem from the Todenhöfer team and Frank Grossenbach from the grassroots democratic party.
Other candidates are Peter Pawelski, Director for Innovation, Growth and Customer Experience, Karl-Maria Schulte, who wanted to become Mayor in 2012 and prefers to call himself Carl Maria, and Markus Eulig, who wrote a book in the bistro on Kleine Hochstrasse and most recently with the “eggnog song” was in the media. A total of 16 men and four women applied.
The voting authorizations, i.e. the responsible department head Eileen O’Sullivan (Volt), will be sent between January 26th and February 12th. They apply not only to the election on March 5, but also to a possible runoff on March 26. This occurs when no candidate receives more than half of the available votes in the first round.
Frankfurt is looking for election workers for the mayor election
Postal ballot documents can be requested from next Monday at the earliest at frankfurt.de/briefwahl-unterlagen, by post, fax, e-mail or via the personalized QR code on the election notification. In theory, it is then possible to request the documents until March 3, 1 p.m., but O’Sullivan recommends doing so by February 22 to allow enough time for the mailing.
The postal polling station, where Frankfurters can personally apply for the documents from January 23, is located at Stiftstraße 29 near the Eschenheimer Turm due to the renovation of the Citizens’ Registration Office. From that Monday in a week and a half you can also vote there.
As always, the city is looking for election workers to work in the 376 polling stations or count one of the 199 postal voting districts. The expense allowance is just under 50 euros per ballot, and those who help on both election dates receive a bonus of 20 euros.
Incidentally, eleven candidates were admitted to the first direct election in 1995. At that time, Petra Roth (CDU) won with 51.9 percent of the current votes in the first ballot. (Sara Bernhard)
Revealed in a tweet “Bahnbabo” Peter Wirth, as he contest the election day in Frankfurt will. An exemption by the VGF was apparently rejected.