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Baden-Württemberg's Green Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann still considers the mayor of Tübingen, Boris Palmer, who is controversial in his party, to be 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 become 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. "
On Tuesday evening, Palmer renewed his offer to help the Greens in the election campaign and again offered the Greens a reconciliation.
“I continue to feel like a Green, I want to fight for this party, I stand behind its goals.
I have to admit that I'm more edgy and sometimes not an easy guy, ”said Palmer at the annual general meeting of the green city association in Tübingen.
At almost 50 years of age, he will probably not change this.
“I can only ask you to take me for who I am.
From my point of view, the offer of reconciliation is meant absolutely seriously. "
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The building and housing policy spokesman for the Greens parliamentary group, Chris Kühn, said he had substantial differences in content with Palmer's positions.
It is not about reconciliation, but about massive differences of opinion.
In the evening, the majority of the Greens in Tübingen initially agreed to focus on the state elections in Baden-Württemberg in March and the federal election in autumn 2021 and the discussion about Palmer's personality and his possible candidacy for the mayor election in autumn 2022 to put back.
The state chairmen Sandra Detzer and Oliver Hildenbrand suggested to Palmer to quit the party in May - because of his controversial statements about older people in the corona pandemic ("We may save people in Germany who would be dead in six months anyway.").
One will no longer support Palmer in a possible renewed candidacy for the OB post, it was said by the Greens in federal, state and city.
The board of directors of the Tübingen city association had also terminated the allegiance at that time.
And the rejection is now renewed for the time being.
"For us Greens in Tübingen, it is especially important that Boris Palmer is no longer a Green OB candidate in 2022," the spokesman for the board announced on Monday.
On Tuesday, however, the city council emphasized: "This sentence has not been decided or authorized like this." The positioning of the city council in spring 2020 was by the majority not to support Boris Palmer.
The city association made it clear in the evening that a decision on the upcoming OB election will only be made by the members at a later date.
"The board makes this explicitly clear."