No party in Frankfurt is experienced in this: How do you do it – an election campaign not, as usual, with the aim of maximizing votes for your own candidates and your own list, but to vote the mayor out of office?

On the one hand, how far do you have to go to mobilize the citizens, and on the other hand, how much do you have to limit yourself in order not to become insulting.

How can such an unusual deselection fight look like?

The Greens, CDU, SPD, FDP and Volt have cleared the first hurdle.

Your vote-out posters are matter-of-fact, revealing the unusual nature of the situation, reminding you that an important decision will be made on November 6 without attacking the person being voted out.

One can assume that most Frankfurters also know what the mayor is accused of.

It is particularly important to remind citizens to exercise their right to vote now by postal vote or at the polling station on November 6th.

The reaction of the citizens decides

The question is, however, what follows this good start.

Hundreds of members of the parties have to put up the posters, distribute flyers and provide information at information stands.

It is a tour de force out of line - for the city, for democracy, but not for the time being for your own party.

The level of motivation to stay on the ball with the preparations for this decision, which is so important for the city, will also depend on the reactions of the citizens.

There is a mood in the city to close the Feldmann chapter, but so far it has by no means been the case that political commitment has been supplemented by civic commitment.

The words that Axel Hellmann, spokesman for the board of Eintracht Frankfurt Fußball AG, found could be a good start for this, the second at the beginning of this week.

Frankfurt has six unusual weeks ahead of it, in which even more than before all attention will be focused on one person, in which at first glance it is only about ending a career with good reasons, but not about starting something new.

But this impression is deceptive.

It was only after Feldmann was voted out that the politicians were free to focus on the tasks facing Frankfurt.