First of all, we want to state that the political climate on a small scale is not quite as harsh as in the House of Representatives in Berlin. Whereby not only, but very often the most glaring discordant tones come from the AfD deputies, for example when the Sauerlach Green Anton Hofreiter is referred to as the “Queen of Gender-Gaga-Land” or the Bundestag uses the attribute “Parliament of Shame.” “receives. No, in this country people continue to fight with a finer blade. And yet, even in the district, one has the feeling that the tone is getting sharper, and not only in traditionally contested local councils such as Haar, Pullach or Taufkirchen. There is also more to the point in the district committees, recently even the Greens and the ÖDP, the environmental brothers and sisters, quarreled in spirit when it came to subsidizing MVV tickets for people who live outside the M-Zone. “Populism” ranted the Greens in the direction of the other parliamentary groups, the ÖDP etched back and District Administrator Christoph Göbel commented with a grin that such disputes occurred in the best families.
He and his administration had to face the attacks of SPD frontman Florian Schardt in the same meeting, who criticized the fact that meeting drafts were becoming increasingly bureaucratic and abstract and that more and more issues were not being dealt with in concrete terms. With which he was in the same horn as Göbel’s deputy Ernst Weidenbusch most recently in the social committee. He put a department head from the district office in such a way that some district councilors looked ashamed at the ground.
It goes noticeably in the direction of everyone against everyone. In the district committee, for example, the FDP got its fat away from the SPD when it came to constantly checking bus connections for their carbon footprint (“The FDP is otherwise so pragmatic.”). And then there is also CSU parliamentary group leader Stefan Schelle, who is rarely at a loss when it comes to portraying what he sees as the lack of competence of the others.
It remains to be said: dispute is part of democracy, so it is not only permissible, but also desirable, if things get a little more tangible in the political debate. And not only in the “All against the AfD” mode, as was the case again and again in the district council last year, for example when the right-wing populists demanded that well-off members of the Greens should take refugees into their homes to put pressure on the housing market gain weight. Even Umarmer Göbel got out of the saddle (“Such a rubbish, I’ve never received such a level application.”) After a withdrawn complaint, the AfD remains outside of the district technical committees. This means that the field there will continue to be prepared for hearty debates without blunt polemics. So: open fire, Democrats!