The Garmisch-Partenkirchen district council formally accepted the controversial AfD local politician Albert Mutschlechner into the committee on the second attempt. At the district council meeting on Monday afternoon, 38 members voted for and eleven against Mutschlechner receiving a seat on the district council. He is replacing a party friend who resigned for health reasons.
The district council must confirm such castling by resolution. At the first attempt in July, there were only five votes for what was actually a purely formal decision; 39 members of the 60-member district council voted against it because the 39-year-old truck driver Mutschlechner posted several at least questionable statements on social media and published political fantasies of violence had.
However, the lawyers in the Garmisch district office had already come to the conclusion in this case, which was unprecedented in Bavaria, that this majority decision by the district councilors was illegal. The higher-level government of Upper Bavaria has confirmed this assessment and asked District Administrator Anton Speer (FW) to put Mutschlechner’s admission to another vote. The district councilors were also aware of this legal situation, but they wanted to send a political signal with the first vote in July.
On Monday, before the vote and Mutschlechner’s swearing in, several representatives of the other factions took the floor. Despite the inflammatory posts, the AfD had always supported Mutschlechner and pointed out that his messages were not criminally relevant. Only, for example, a prison sentence for an intentional crime would have legally represented an “obstacle” to membership in the district council.