After the FDP district members meeting on Wednesday, which was postponed due to technical breakdowns, critical voices against the liberals, but also against their own party leadership, increased among the Frankfurt Greens.

"We shouldn't have renegotiated with the FDP," they say.

The party members are criticizing the willingness of the Greens to discuss a supplementary “declaration on the coalition agreement” with the FDP, but also with the SPD and Volt.

A process that the Green Party leader Bastian Bergerhoff has described as "clarifications" of the actual contract.

Mechthild Harting

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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    The critics see it differently.

    The board and coalition negotiating group are in the process of squandering the party's strong position after winning the local elections in mid-March.

    "We as Greens are getting weaker every day," they say.

    Dispute over women's statute

    So far, no members have spoken publicly about what it means for the Greens if the Frankfurt FDP should not agree to a majority of the coalition agreement and declaration at its district members' meeting in the Waldstadion on Sunday.

    Subject to the approval of the FDP for the coalition, the Greens have invited to the district members' meeting for Monday evening.

    There, the base should discuss and vote on the supplementary declaration to the contract and on the "nominations for the Greens positions in the magistrate".

    This means the filling of the negotiated five departmental posts.

    As reported, there had been disagreements in the party about the fact that the women's statute of the Frankfurt Greens had not been taken into account in the first personnel proposal, i.e. the posts should not be filled equally with men and women.

    It has been known since Thursday that the party leadership would recommend on Monday that the positions be filled with three women and two men.

    Rosemarie Heilig will remain city councilor for the environment and women, Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg will be the head of integration and mayor, Bergerhoff Kämmerer, and the previous health department head Stefan Majer would also take over the transport department.

    In doing so, he paved the way for the newly added social department for the Greens to be taken care of by a woman: by Majer's office manager Elke Voitl or by city councilor Natascha Kauder.

    Applications from the base are available

    A debate is expected at the Greens general meeting on the "Declaration on the coalition agreement" called for by the FDP.

    Applications from the base are available.

    The Greens parliamentary group of the Bockenheimer local advisory council demands not to vote at all on the "non-binding declaration".

    Because this would lead to a “misleading and excessive assessment of this additional declaration”.

    Others request that they just take note of the statement.

    The coalition agreement alone remains the “binding basis for cooperation”.

    The future of the autonomous centers is also discussed.

    One application calls for “continued unrestricted commitment to the free existence” of the centers and “always to take into account the needs of those involved in culture and residents of the centers”.