Stuttgart (AP) – Baden-Württemberg’s Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann still considers the mayor of Tübingen, Boris Palmer, who is controversial among the Greens, suitable for higher political offices. In response to a corresponding question in Stuttgart on Tuesday, Kretschmann said: “Sure, as far as I know, he wants to be mayor of Tübingen again.” The Green politician explained that he had never written off Palmer. “I’ve never been unreconciled with him. I often have angry debates with him. ”
The Greens state executive suggested Palmer to quit the party in May – because of his controversial statements about the elderly in the corona pandemic (“We may save people in Germany who would be dead in six months anyway.”) You will Palmer in a possible No longer support renewed candidacy for the OB post, it was said by the Greens in federal, state and city.
At the end of last week, the 48-year-old said he was hoping for a “reconciliation” with the Greens. Kretschmann had then declared at the Green Party Congress on Saturday: “The reconciliation process has already started.” But the state chairmen Sandra Detzer and Oliver Hildenbrand and the head of the Tübingen city association see it differently.
“For us Greens in Tübingen, it is especially important that Boris Palmer is no longer a green OB candidate in 2022,” the city council declared on Monday. Because of his repeated verbal derailments, Palmer will no longer be supported in the nomination for a candidacy for the office of Lord Mayor. This attitude has not changed since May.
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