New election in Bad Gandersheim: Court tilts mayoral election 2021!

New election in Bad Gandersheim: Court tilts mayoral election 2021!

Bad Gandersheim, Deutschland - In Bad Gandersheim, a new election of the mayor is carried out today after a court declared the previous election invalid. This happened because the reigning mayor Franziska Schwarz (SPD) violated the neutrality obligation, as both the Göttingen Administrative Court and the Higher Administrative Court of Lüneburg found. Schwarz had operated the election campaign hidden in the last weeks of the election campaign, which led to an objection that ex-CDU city councilor Timo Dröge had submitted. The accusation: she would have exploited her official resources to promote her re -election, which ultimately led to this dramatic turn in the political landscape, reported ndr.de .

Franziska Schwarz, who has been in office since 2014, withdrew from the race for the new election after the judgment. Instead, the 60-year-old Grit Arndt runs as a single applicant and 29-year-old Niklas Kielhorn for the SPD. The resistance to her methods, especially the so -called "garden catering talks", in which she led in the election year 2021 election campaign in villages, had caused violent controversy. These discussions were considered a hidden election campaign, and the court decided that they should not have presented themselves as a private person, but in their official function, such as