If proof was needed that Peter Feldmann's time in the mayor's office had expired, it was his self-chosen staging on Wednesday in the town hall: the heavy door of his office wing opened towards the hallway, Feldmann stepped out and read out a statement , the door closed again behind him.
No questions, no conversation.
A mayor hides himself from the citizens, and he will keep hiding: for the time being “almost” no representative appointments, no press conferences, no press releases.
If Feldmann, for once, sticks to what he promises, Frankfurt will be a city without a mayor for the time being.
And that's not reassuring, as one might think prematurely in view of the freaks out in the past few days, but an impossibility: someone here isn't doing the tasks for which they were elected.
Because his announcement that he wants to continue doing politics without publicity also comes to nothing: he has nothing to do with the operative business of the coalition, and as the supervisory board or chairman of the supervisory board of municipal companies, he is primarily supposed to supervise;
the operative business is not his business there either.
SPD has broken with Feldmann
Feldmann is isolating himself and is isolated at the same time - after his self-imposed quarantine it will be interesting to see who in the city is still inviting him or, conversely, accepting his invitations.
It is not only at the World Economic Forum in Davos that people no longer want to be seen with this gentleman.
The childish defiance that keeps Feldmann from drawing the necessary conclusions requires the parties in Romans to finally initiate the deselection, which ends with a vote of the citizens.
At the city council meeting two weeks ago, the coalition condescended to the CDU, which had made such an application.
It will be remembered for a long time that the SPD and the Greens did not consider an indictment by the public prosecutor's office to be a reason to demand the immediate resignation of the mayor, but rather a series of embarrassments that one can get angry about with good reason, but which are not remotely justiciable.
But now that the SPD has finally broken with its comrade, there should be no more delays.
Peter Feldmann is no longer doing his job, he has made himself impossible, he is paralyzing local politics, which is faced with a huge catalog of important tasks that have to be worked through.
In a word: the Lord Mayor is doing massive damage to the city, for the good of which he is supposed to exercise his office.
It's time to call the citizens to the polls to end this chapter.