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Kathrin Mancuso moves to Steckborn City Hall on the second ballot Sunday. She gets the most votes again and has a clear goal. The city council is not yet complete with the election of Mancuso.
Election winner Kathrin Mancuso toasts her success with her husband Marco.
The seven-member city council is again six. It’s clear from Sunday noon: Kathrin Mancuso will succeed the resigned Gregor Rominger in Steckborn City Council effective immediately and through 2023. The 44-year-old intensive care specialist and editor won 506 of 868 valid votes on the second ballot and again he referred Jack Rietiker (with 332 votes) to second place.
Kathrin Mancuso, Steckborn’s new councilor, nonpartisan.
“I am very happy that so many people trust me,” Mancuso said shortly after the election results were announced. Due to the current tense situation of the crown, he celebrated “schüch” at home with his loved ones.
“But we already toasted the electoral victory.”
Rietiker does not rule out a new candidacy
Mancuso also receives congratulations from his opponent. As in the first ballot, Jack Rietiker had to admit defeat, again clearly, this time with a difference of 170 votes. “I’m not disappointed, the result was almost to be expected,” says the 52-year-old engineer and psychologist. Compared to the first vote, he and Mancuso would have won. Rietiker says:
Jack Rietiker, defeated candidate for Steckborn city council, no party.
“I am satisfied and grateful.”
There were 30 votes for a few. With the current Mancuso election, the city council is not yet complete. Due to the resignation of the vice president of the city, Michaela Dähler, last week, the electorate will decide on another replacement election on January 10, 2021. It does not yet know if Rietiker will compete again. “That would be premature now,” he says. However, he does not want to categorically rule out a new candidacy.
Nominations for the elections can be submitted until November 16. To date, no official candidacies are known.
“Take a photo impartially and neutrally”
Mancuso doesn’t need to worry about that. Dähler’s resignation does not change his starting position. “I want to have an impartial and neutral image of the city council,” he says. In principle, changes in a divided body are never bad.
By the way, Mancuso already scored by far the best result of the five candidates at the time in the first ballot at the end of September. With the exception of Rietiker, however, all the other candidates withdrew from the race. Mayor Roman Pulfer congratulates Mancuso on his current election victory:
Roman Pulfer, Mayor Steckborn, FDP.
“We look forward to cooperation.”
She is “without a doubt a valuable reinforcement” for the city council. 903 ballots were received from 2349 voters. According to Pulfer, this corresponds to a “relatively high” share of 38.44 percent. He says: “That shows the great interest.”
