The resignation of Sebastian Riedelbauch from the SPD parliamentary group in Oberschleissheim’s municipal council now throws the statics of the council committees upside down. The municipal administration and the district office as the supervisory authority have corrected their original assessment. Riedelbauch now has a seat on two committees, the SPD loses one, the Greens have voluntarily relinquished one.
Riedelbauch now represents the ÖDP, which did not stand in the local elections, in the local council. Because he did not achieve parliamentary group status as an individual council, he was not taken into account in the new distribution of committees. This practice has always been customary in Oberschleissheim, which is why individual councils have often come together to form nominal committee communities in order to obtain committee seats like parliamentary groups. Following this practice, the municipal council had initially redistributed the committees without taking Riedelbauch into account.
Now the town hall administration had to correct itself. The district office as the supervisory authority “revised its decision”, justified Mayor Markus Böck (CSU) the reversal, according to which now the ÖDP with a council and without parliamentary group status was taken into account in the calculation. In the original calculation in the constituent meeting in May 2020, the Greens and the SPD each had five municipal council mandates. When converting to committee size, this meant that the last seat in five committees received mathematically identical entitlements.
The luck of the draw remains true to the Greens
At that time, a lottery was drawn, with the curious result that all five lottery decisions went to the Greens. At the time, the Greens gave up one of the seats, the vacation committee, to the five-time defeated SPD in a patronizing mood. With the original recalculation without taking the ÖDP into account, the twelfth seat would have now gone to the Greens, who are now one more mandate; in fact no change, as they had all been drawn anyway. And they left the donated seat in the holiday committee to the SPD.
With the consideration of the ÖDP, the calculation example has now changed. However, there was again a mathematical stalemate for the twelfth seat, this time between the Greens and the ÖDP. Again there was a lottery – and this time four of the five raffles went to the Greens. However, the Greens and the ÖDP had already agreed in advance and divided the seats internally. The Greens are now foregoing a seat on the Environment and Transport Committee, which Fritz-Gerrit Kropp will hand over to Riedelbauch. The Greens are also vacating a seat in the finance committee, which Christoph Münster is handing over to Riedelbauch.
Riedelbauch, in turn, leaves his seat on the main committee, the only one that would have been drawn, to the Greens, so the line-up remains unchanged. The Greens have now taken back the seat on the holiday committee that was passed on to the SPD; it is now occupied by Kropp instead of Irene Bogdain. In the Environment and Transport Committee, where Riedelbauch previously sat for the SPD, Bogdain is moving up for the SPD. In the twelve committees, the CSU and FW each have three seats, the SPD two and the FDP one; the Greens two plus the third seat allocated in each case or the ÖDP one seat.