With the necessary two-thirds majority, Frankfurt city councilors initiated the process of voting out of office against Mayor Peter Feldmann (SPD), who is suspected of corruption.

Bernhard Biener

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung

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67 city councilors voted for it, 62 votes would have been necessary.

During the meeting, the Lord Mayor issued a statement that he would not use the opportunity to vote out within eight days.

This means that the citizens have the last word on November 6th.

The field man only has to leave office if at least 30 percent of those entitled to vote vote for his deselection.

At the beginning of the session of the Frankfurt City Council on the vote-out procedure against Lord Mayor Peter Feldmann (SPD), the session leader turned off the microphone.

At the beginning of the meeting on Thursday afternoon in Frankfurt's Römer, Feldmann had submitted a motion for the agenda.

He requested that the issue of free daycare be brought forward.

City council leader Hilime Arslaner (Die Grünen) tried several times unsuccessfully to interrupt him.

When Feldmann continued to speak undeterred, she turned off the microphone to the applause of the city councillors.