Würzburg City Council introduced resolution against racism

The city council wants to start its new parliamentary term with a “Resolution against Racism and Discrimination”: An intergroup proposal, which was put forward by nine parties and groups represented in the council, emphasizes the initiative “Freedom, Tolerance and Diversity of Urban Society”.

With the resolution, the applicants, who stand for 47 of the 51 city councils, want to set an example for the coming six years in the constituent meeting of the city council this Monday. The SPD parliamentary group launched the application: “The election campaign resulted in nationalistic, racist and discriminatory statements against which the complaint was made. We therefore take a clear position and are pleased that our resolution has received so much support”, says the SPD parliamentary group leader Alexander Kolbow.

Majority of the city council wants to reject anti-democratic motions

Mayor Christian Schuchardt (CDU) filed the lawsuit for sedition against the AfD after anti-Semitic and racist statements by representatives of the Würzburg district association were documented in a video during the election campaign and published on YouTube.

The AfD is represented in the new city council for the first time with two city councils. In the meeting last Thursday, Schuchardt emphasized that the committee would not offer “inhuman attitudes in all their manifestations no forum”.

So it is in the resolution, in which the AfD itself is not mentioned: “We deeply reject hatred and violence and denial of historical facts, exclusion, xenophobia, racism, anti-Semitism and discrimination.” The city council undertakes to fundamentally contradict inhumane statements and to reject anti-democratic motions.

CSU distances itself from xenophobia and racism

The CSU group is also among the signatories: “We brought in a resolution against anti-Semitism, which was passed unanimously, after the Hanau attacks. In the local electoral program, too, we clearly distanced ourselves from all forms of racism and xenophobia,” emphasizes her group leader Wolfgang Roth.

“Würzburg is colorful,” says Green City Councilor Patrick Friedl. With the resolution “we make our self-image and the common democratic basis of our cosmopolitan European city clear”, said the member of the state parliament.

AfD expresses itself

Sebastian Roth (left) explains that the formulation of the resolution was a joint project of the political groups involved: “We want to make it clear that we will not tolerate certain ideologies and behaviors.” Of the groups previously represented on the city council, only the Würzburg list did not sign the application. According to the SPD parliamentary group leader, the WL did not respond to the request.

At the request of this editorial team, the AfD also commented on the resolution, but does not go into its content and the question of whether it wants to support the resolution: “We have been left out. If this is to be the desired cooperation in the committee and the will of many Würzburg voters is ignored, this is already more than questioning some of the points mentioned in the resolution, “writes the new AfD City Councilor Ludwig Mechler.

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• Wurzburg

• Patrick Wötzel

• Alexander Kolbow

• Alternative for Germany

• Anti-democracy

• anti-Semitism

• CDU

• CSU

• Christian Schuchardt

• democracy

• Group leaders

• hate

• Ideologies

• nationalism

• Patrick Friedl

• SPD faction

• SPD faction leaders

• Sebastian Roth

• City councils and municipal councils

• tolerance

• Wolfgang Roth

• Wurzburg list

• YouTube

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