Frankfurt am Main
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A man wants to go down
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That has never happened in a city as big as Frankfurt am Main: next Sunday, the citizens will decide whether Mayor Peter Feldmann will be voted out of office.
(Photo: Boris Roessler/picture alliance/dpa)
Frankfurt’s Lord Mayor Peter Feldmann is sticking to his post, despite being voted out by the city councillors, despite the process, despite a large number of embarrassing appearances. Now the citizens should depose him. But do they really do that?
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Gianna Niewel, Frankfurt am Main
Normally, Peter Feldmann would have received the Spanish royal couple at the book fair in Frankfurt. Normally he would also have been sitting in the Paulskirche when the Ukrainian writer Serhij Zhadan received the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, wearing his chain of office, eighteen-carat gold. Presumably he would have welcomed him in this city. In his city.
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