If the municipal council takes action against its own mayor (almost) united with the support of a lawyer, then the sense of community, which is one of the roots of the understanding of a municipality, is completely gone.
More disruption is not possible. If the municipal council takes action against its own mayor (almost) united with the support of a lawyer, then the sense of community, which is one of the roots of the understanding of a municipality, is completely gone.
With the relevant decision by the Echinger municipal council, the behavior of Mayor Sebastian Thaler, who persistently celebrates “business as usual”, becomes completely grotesque; as if nothing had happened apart from a penalty order from the district court, which is still to be negotiated, and everyone loved each other.
To put it sarcastically, “business as usual” is of course appropriate, because the disruption is now in fact the normal state of affairs in Eching. Because once the penalty order for breach of trust against the mayor has been negotiated before the district court, the prosecutor’s office will take over and recognize his behavior in the settlement of the legal dispute over the dispute at Echinger See as well as his award of community orders to his own brother-in-law. And at the same time, the lawsuit of your own municipal council will run before administrative or civil courts.
The mayor does nothing to clarify the matter
The mayor does nothing to clarify the allegations against him or even just to help the community he represents to recover money that may have been wrongly spent, leaves inquiries unanswered, and says nothing about everything. In terms of a moral assessment of what happened, everyone can now interpret this as they wish.
For the community, however, it is devastating beyond all legal, political and ethical assessments. As if anything in Eching could get back on track now that legal judgments have been made! Quite apart from the fact that this will take years across all instances.
The mayor and the municipal council are two organs of a municipality. Who is “the community” in the future when its two central organs work against each other? Eching is very, very low right now.