Today in Rhein-Main: Difficult start to the FDP's election campaign

Good evening, it

that Peter Feldmann was voted out as Frankfurt's Lord Mayor, but in politics a week can be an eternity.

Political Frankfurt has long been looking ahead to the new election of the mayor on March 5th.

The CDU and SPD have already named candidates Uwe Becker and Mike Josef.

It was expected with some excitement whether the Frankfurt FDP would follow suit at their party conference on Saturday, but the Liberals are not going that fast.

Party leader Thorsten Lieb would like an FDP candidate, but he doesn't want one himself.

Now someone should be found by December 7th.

Such a performance is not really convincing, because even if you don't give an FDP candidate the best chance, it shouldn't look like someone had to be convinced with a lot of effort.

One gets the impression that the house blessing is still lopsided among the liberals because of their participation in the Roman coalition. When he was re-elected, Lieb received just 68 percent of the votes.

The chances in the mayoral election do not increase with such appearances.

Bernhard Biener attended the party congress and reported and commented on it.

Manfred Koehler

Head of department of the Rhein-Main editorial team of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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But of course everyone is the architect of their own fortune.

This also applies to the Groß-Gerau district, to which the Frankfurt virus has apparently jumped, no longer taking the local economy so seriously.

13 out of 14 mayors are against further logistics halls, only Raunheim reports to the contrary.

Most politicians are also skeptical about the project for a huge greenhouse near Gernsheim.

The cultivation of vegetables in the region means that transports halfway around the world can be avoided, and because of its proximity to the airport, the district has excellent growth opportunities with logistics, which one day could be worth doing without.

But the district of Groß-Gerau doesn't have to wait for bad times.

The district administrator is already expecting a big minus in the budget for 2023.

More money is always welcome.

The Education and Science Union underpinned its demand for better pay for primary school teachers on Saturday with a demonstration in downtown Frankfurt, with 2,000 participants according to the organizers.

And

the "FAZ readers help" campaign is still running, collecting dandelions for the work of the German Doctors in Kenya on the one hand and for the children's hospice service on the other

Petra Kirchhoff explains what food manufacturers can do in times of inflation apart from price increases to get their money's worth: reduce the contents of the packaging

the translator Claudia Dathe accepted the Wilhelm Merton Prize.

I wish you a pleasant evening,

Yours, Manfred Koehler

You can also read current reports from the region in Skyline-Blick, our live news blog for the Rhine-Main region, and on the Rhein-Main-Zeitung website.

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for Monday

Sunshine at times after early fog clears, later more clouds, but mostly dry.

Maximum temperatures around 11 degrees.

have a birthday

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Günter Hinkel

, managing partner of Hassia Mineralquellen, honorary citizen of the city of Bad Vilbel (85);

, Wiesbaden florist and event manager (64);

, Frankfurt artist (55).

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