The political national trend always plays a role in local elections, says member of the bundestag manuela rottmann. The district council candidate from B’90/die grunen/burger fur umwelt therefore reckons she has a good chance of being elected at district level. She believes that the best result to date of around 20 percent, achieved in 2008 by district council candidate norbert schmahling for B’90/die grunen/odp, can be topped. “We will get more than 20 percent this time.”
It’s “exciting to see”, how the people in the region judge the policies of the incumbent, whether they confirm them through their vote or formulate new needs of their own, the 47-year-old says. The fact that there is a kind of new spirit not only within the party, but also among the burgers, can be seen from the fact that there are numerous people in the district who have suddenly felt like joining the grunen. Recently there are lists of candidates of B’90/die grunen for the local elections in bad bruckenau, munnerstadt, bad bocklet and mabbach. “It would have been possible to do even more, but we have reached the limits of our capacity in terms of preparations.” The fact that B’90/die grunen is in the ascendancy in the district is also proven by the number of members, says rottmann. While there were 45 members in 2017, there are now over 90. “And we’ll break the 100 mark, too.”
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