Good evening,


two and a half months have passed since the local elections, but it is still not clear who will be in charge of the Frankfurt City Hall in the future.

On Friday it was a week ago that the

Greens, the SPD, the FDP and Volt

proudly signed a thick

coalition agreement

presented, but now it could already be a case for the city archives.

Because while the base of three of the four parties agreed to the negotiations, there was a narrow majority of 80 to 78 votes at the FDP party conference on Wednesday evening with nine abstentions for a motion that calls for renegotiations.

For the Liberals' basis, the treaty is not liberal enough; they clash with the expansion of the magistrate, the dealings with autonomous centers and the agreements on transport policy.

Manfred Koehler

Deputy head of the regional section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and editor in charge of the business magazine Metropol.

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    Anyone who has haggled for every word for weeks, who was proud that the great work was finally available, naturally groans. The Greens, the chief negotiators as the election winners, nonetheless showed themselves calm on Thursday. Take a deep breath first. Nobody knows at the moment what will happen next. Not even in the FDP, in which the party leadership was unable to get the grassroots behind them. What remains? a) Frankfurt will not go under. b) It's great that the future of the city is being fought with so much passion. c) There will be city government and it will not be long before citizens know who it is.

    The excitement surrounding the decision of the FDP has pushed even the most important issues a bit into the background. In Hessen the incidence is now below 50! In Frankfurt too! In the Main-Taunus-Kreis and in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district, it will be possible to eat something inside at the weekend, just like in the past! Okay, only with a corona test. But at least. You can even go to the Opel Zoo without a test! Life will be beautiful again.

    And what's more

    , the Annual General Meeting of Deutsche Bank on Thursday was quieter than in previous years - of course, the numbers have also gotten better;

    the Portikus in Frankfurt is also accessible again, where the first exhibition opens with a work by Willem de Rooij;

    the large-scale deployment of the police in the Dannenröder forest in central Hesse last autumn caused costs in the double-digit millions.

    I wish you a pleasant evening

    Yours Manfred Köhler

    The

    weather

    for Friday

    Sun and clouds alternate.

    It usually stays dry and the temperatures rise to values ​​of up to 19 degrees.

    Have a

    birthday

    on Friday

    Anton Nauheimer

    , shipowner, owner and managing director of the Primus-Linie, Frankfurt (75);

    Thomas Winkler

    (The Greens), Mayor of Mörfelden-Walldorf (64);

    Klaus Vornhusen

    , authorized representative of Deutsche Bahn AG for Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, Frankfurt (60);

    Ivan Dikic

    , Director of the Institute for Biochemistry II at Goethe University Frankfurt, Leibniz Prize Winner (55);

    Jan Hoffmann

    , artistic director of the Frankfurter Singakademie, deputy general music director at the Stadttheater Gießen (50);

    Carmela Castagna Veneziano

    (independent), honorary city councilor in Frankfurt (47);

    Felix Fischl

    , Managing Director of the Filmhaus Frankfurt (37);

    on Saturday

    Karl-Christian Schelzke

    (SPD), Managing Director of the Hessian Association of Local Election Officials, from 1999 to May 2020 Managing Director of the Hessian Association of Towns and Municipalities, Mühlheim (71);

    Christiane Hinninger

    (The Greens), parliamentary group leader in the Wiesbaden city council (60);

    On Sunday

    Roland Beck

    (BFF), former honorary city councilor in Frankfurt (80);

    Wolfgang Seeliger

    , conductor, artistic director of the Darmstadt Residence Festival, holder of the Goethe plaque from the State of Hesse (75);

    Thomas Michel

    , honorary chairman of the board of the Wiesbadener Bürgerstiftung (67);

    Sylvia Ströher

    , art collector, chairwoman of the Informal Art Foundation, Darmstadt (67);

    Ralf Schodlok

    , Chairman of the Board of ESWE Supply AG, Wiesbaden (62);

    Martin Reitz

    , chairman of the board of management of the investment bank Rothschild & Co. Deutschland GmbH, Frankfurt (55).