Voters have to vote: Feldmann lets the deadline for his resignation pass

Frankfurt Mayor Peter Feldmann (SPD) has allowed the one-week deadline for a resignation to pass.

"No message was received by the head of the city council," said Brigitte Palmowsky, head of the city assembly office.

Mechthild Harting

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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It is now clear that the people of Frankfurt will vote on November 6th to vote out the mayor.

A deselection requires that 30 percent of those entitled to vote are in favour.

Expensive voting process

On Thursday a week ago, the city parliament initiated the vote-out procedure with a large majority.

The Hessian Municipal Code provides that in this case the mayor can give written notice within a week that he will waive a decision by the citizens on his deselection.

In the past few days, the town hall coalition, together with the CDU, had repeatedly asked Feldmann to refrain from the expensive vote-out procedure by the citizens.

The cost of the ballot is estimated at around 1.6 million euros.

Feldmann himself had previously offered to accept a vote-out procedure without the referendum if this were only initiated by the city council in January.