November 26 is an important day for the Frankfurt CDU.

The members are to vote at a district party conference on their mayoral candidate and elect a new party chairman.

On Monday, the board of directors unanimously nominated party leader Uwe Becker as the candidate to succeed Peter Feldmann (SPD), who had been voted out.

He claims to be a mayor for all Frankfurters, said Becker.

The 53-year-old European State Secretary and Hessian Anti-Semitism Commissioner announced that he would therefore resign from his party office.

"The Union is my home, but I want to build a bridge for those who are not close to the CDU," said Becker, who was only elected party leader in March.

The district board also unanimously chose the CDU faction leader in Römer as his successor,

Nils Kößler, elected.

The 45-year-old lawyer is to lead the party and parliamentary group in a dual function.

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The Greens have actually agreed to take their time to nominate their candidate for the mayoral election.

Two federal politicians are among the aspirants: Green Party leader Omid Nouripour and the lawyer and State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Manuela Rottmann.

As it became known on Monday, Nouripour has announced its withdrawal.

He has let his party know that he is not available as a candidate in this mayoral election.

The now 50-year-old Manuela Rottmann, who was head of the environmental department in Frankfurt from 2006 to 2012, said, on the other hand, that she thinks it's right that the Frankfurt Greens wanted to carefully examine the best offer for a new start.

"I'm attached to Frankfurt and I'm basically open to making a contribution."

A selection committee, which will present the official result on November 19, has the final say in the selection of candidates for the Greens.

It is said that Mayor Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg and City Councilor Hilime Arslaner threw their hats in the ring.

The name of chamberlain Bastian Bergerhoff, who has not yet brought himself into play, is also mentioned again and again.

According to reports, numerous Greens are also banking on going into the mayoral election campaign with a woman.

Rottmann is all the more likely to be one of the Greens' most promising candidates.

It was probably just a coincidence that Frankfurt SPD chairman Mike Josef gave a television interview on Sunday evening with the mayor's door behind him.

But maybe it was also an omen: after the incumbent Feldmann was voted out, there are many social democrats who want Josef to run: “Everything looks like Mike.

If he says he wants to do it, then he will," says someone who knows the party leader well.

Josef would also have the best chances, because he is by far the best-known SPD politician in Frankfurt.

Ina Hartwig is mentioned as number two, but the head of the cultural department reaches a smaller, intellectual audience and is considered less popular.

Josef, on the other hand, can also be imagined in the classic doorstep campaign.

He is not afraid of contact, is a good strategist and, as the head of planning, is also respected by investors and architects.

It is unclear whether he would like to do his family the job in which he would be even more exposed than he is now.

But he should then at least give up the party chairmanship.

If both Josef and Hartwig cancel, members of the Bundestag Armand Zorn or Kaweh Mansoori, who represent the Frankfurt SPD in Berlin, could step in.