The local council has adopted a resolution calling for the withdrawal of the authorities' demolition order for the'Girl of Peace' installed in the German capital Berlin.
Accordingly, there is a greater possibility that the girl statue will survive for one year, which is the installation deadline, and a foothold for permanent installation has been prepared.
The Mitte district council in Berlin passed a resolution on the 5th stating that the girl statue should remain as scheduled.
The resolution, which was submitted by a member of the Pirate Party, appealed, "The girl statue is productively contributing to the discussion on sexual violence against women in armed conflict."
37 people attended the ballot, 28 voted for it, and 9 opposed it.
Members of the three liberal parties, including the Social Democratic Party, the Green Party, and the Left Party, which are the participating parties of the Berlin coalition government, voted in favor, and two members of the Pirate Party agreed.
The negative votes came mainly from the right-wing party.
The left party went one step further from the Pirate Party's resolution and came up with an agenda recommending the permanent installation of a girl statue, but due to time, it could not be discussed on this day.
This resolution could put a lot of pressure on the ward office, as the Green Party, which is also affiliated by Mayor Stefan von Dassell Mitte, also approved.
Earlier, Mite-gu Office approved the installation of the girl statue in honor of the victims of Japanese military comfort women in July last year, acknowledging that it is an international issue of the human rights of women victims of war.
The girl's statue was erected on the main street of Mitte district in late September, a year and two months later.
However, after the installation, when the Japanese side protested the German government and the Berlin state government, the Mitte Ward Office ordered the demolition on the 7th of last month.
As a result, the civil society of Berlin opposes and when the Korea Verband, a local civic group that supervised the installation of the girl statue, submitted a request for temporary injunction to suspend the demolition order to the administrative court, Matte-gu withheld the demolition order and stepped back.
The Mite Ward Office is currently proposing to correct the inscription of the girl statue.
The inscription contains a short explanation that Japanese troops forcibly dragged women across Asia and the Pacific as sex slaves during World War II, and to pay homage to the courage of survivors campaigning to prevent the recurrence of these war crimes.
The Mite Ward Office has not yet issued a specific amendment to the inscription.
The installation deadline for the girl's statue is until August 14 next year.