The Frankfurt FDP wants to enter the mayoral election on March 5 next year with its own candidate.

The party announced this immediately after Peter Feldmann was voted out at the beginning of November.

As party leader Thorsten Lieb has now announced, he will propose to the district executive committee that the current parliamentary group leader in Römer and member of the state parliament, Yanki Pürsün, be recommended as a candidate for the district general meeting.

This meets this Wednesday and will nominate the candidate.

Mechthild Harting

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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"I am very pleased that Pürsün has agreed to accept this candidacy," Lieb told the FAZ. The party leader, who is also a member of the Bundestag, had signaled early on that the candidacy was not an option for him.

"Someone who has a local political focus has to do that," said Lieb.

In addition to Pürsün, the two city councilors Stephanie Wüst and Annette Rinn were also suitable for him.

According to reports, Wüst refused despite strong advertising.

For Lieb, the 50-year-old Pürsün is an ideal candidate, as he stands like no other for the fact that "politics has a lot to do with work and integrity".

Pürsün had rendered outstanding services in connection with the AWO affair as an enlightener.

According to Lieb, he "made a significant contribution to the situation we are in now: the election of a new mayor." The FDP last named its own mayoral candidate 21 years ago.

Seven mayor candidates have been identified

The Citizens for Frankfurt (BFF) will compete with Mathias Pfeiffer in the mayoral election on March 5th.

As reported by the BFF, the 56-year-old chairman of the independent voters' association and leader of the BFF parliamentary group in the Römer was unanimously elected with one abstention at a BFF nomination meeting at the weekend.

Pfeiffer announced that he wanted to be a candidate for all Frankfurters.

With Pfeiffer, the circle of mayoral candidates who have been nominated by one party and some have already been elected has increased to seven.

In addition to Manuela Rottmann (Die Grünen), Uwe Becker (CDU), Mike Josef (SPD), Daniela Mehler-Würzbach (Die Linke) and the now nominated Yanki Pürsün (FDP), this also includes Andreas Lobenstein (AfD).

In addition, the tram driver Peter Wirth, known as “Bahnbabo”, and the event organizer Maja Wolff have also announced that they will stand in the mayoral election.