No.After Verdi, CDU, SPD and Volt, Die Linke also presented its candidate in the Mayor’s elections in March: municipal councilor Uli Franke is in the running. The general assembly of the Darmstadt district association unanimously appointed him. The 54-year-old Franconian is the CEO of the party’s parliamentary group. For many years he was active as treasurer and chairman of the Darmstadt district association. He has been a member of the Die Linke city council since 2017. His candidacy to succeed the incumbent mayor of Darmstadt Jochen Parsch (The Greens) is the second attempt to win this charge. In 2017, it received 4.3 percent of the vote.
There isn’t much to suggest that the leftist candidate could win in 2023. Left district spokesman Aaron Schreiner still thinks it is important to present a candidate: social issue and social justice, affordable housing, good paid work and fighting poverty and exclusion, ”he says Franke has been doing this for many years at the top of the district association and as a city councilor.
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