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northEven on Friday, the foothills of the political earthquake that the mayor of Frankfurt, Peter Feldmann (SPD), had unleashed on Thursday night with his attack on his colleague of the magistrate, Markus Frank (CDU), had been unleashed. Whether one of the three partners – CDU, SPD and Greens – will soon declare the coalition terminated due to worsening conflicts, was still uncertain at first. The parties also reportedly discussed whether Feldmann would use the opportunity provided by the municipal code to redistribute responsibilities to the magistrate.
Feldmann had accused the CDU city council on Thursday night of the agenda item “cleanup” of being responsible for “dirtying the city” and “neglecting some neighborhoods.” This became particularly visible in the Corona period. Frank doesn’t take enough action against trash sinners. The mayor criticized the mayor and demanded: “The priorities of the municipal police, these committed comrades, have to change.” After all, the number of municipal police has been drastic in recent years. it has increased, “but the city is dirtier.” The garbage issue “pollutes people.”
“The mayor forbade me to speak”
The secretary of the order then had no opportunity to react to these accusations in front of the town hall. Feldmann had already decreed at noon that only he could speak to the magistrate on the matter of cleanliness. In response to Frank’s questions, the mayor rejected the request. “The mayor forbade me to speak,” Frank said Friday.
The nearly 200 employees of the Frankfurt City Police did a good job. Due to the crown pandemic, law enforcement officers had a flood of new tasks that would push them to the limit of their limits. If the city government wants to set other priorities for the city police than crown checks in green spaces, restaurants, businesses, weekly markets, as well as subways and trams, then one has to talk about that, so Frank, arguments you couldn’t explain Thursday night.
The leader of the CDU parliamentary group, Nils Kößler, described the attacks and the ban on speaking on behalf of his party’s council as a “dark hour for political culture in this house.” He couldn’t have imagined such a low point, Kößler said, speaking of a “pathetic move.” And further: “This is also a dark hour for the coalition.”
“Breaking political taboos with an advertisement”
The CDU wants to discuss over the weekend what consequences the scandal will have. “In any case, we will not let him rest,” CDU district president Jan Schneider said of this newspaper. He called Feldmann’s attack on Frank and the subsequent refusal to allow him to speak a “breaking of a political taboo with an advertisement.” Schneider, who is a building and citizenship councilor on the magistrate, said his party would calmly consider how to respond to the affront. The truth is that the mayor plunged the coalition into a deep crisis.
