New FDP leader Maiwald: Does the Frankfurt coalition shake for drug policy?

New FDP leader Maiwald: Does the Frankfurt coalition shake for drug policy?

Niddastraße, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland - The Frankfurter FDP elected a new chairman on Monday evening. Frank Maiwald received an impressive 75 percent of the vote and succeeds Thorsten Lieb, who leaves the party leadership after nine years. A new era for the FDP, which is located in a tense coalition situation between the Greens, SPD and Volt, also begins with Maiwald. Due to internal party discussions, the future of this cooperation remains uncertain, and the party executive and the parliamentary group are now responsible for the direction of the coalition. Interestingly, an urgency application that the coalition would have questioned in the event of a rejection of a planned addiction aid center in Niddastraße was rejected. This topic will be dealt with in the city parliament on July 3, but the tensions are already growing.

The fact that the FDP stands against its own head of the head Elke Voitl (Greens), which is behind the conversion of drug help in Frankfurt, is particularly explosive. This planned facility in Niddastraße, which is in the immediate vicinity of a well-known drug hotspot, is met with considerable criticism. According to a report by Hessenschau.de, an FDP district member said that the planned location was not only unhappily elected, but also put a large part of the residents and business people into turmoil. Many of them had only learned from the plans about the media what the social department gave a "communication catastrophe".

split within the coalition

The situation could not be more excited. While the Greens and the SPD want to pursue the course of drug policy, the FDP has clear concerns and calls for the closure of existing consumption rooms. It pleads to locate addiction help in "suitable layers", only that so far remains unclear what this means in detail and where they should be "suitable layers". Head of the Union Annette Rinn (FDP) described this project as "completely unrealistic".

The votes in the city parliament are therefore not only crucial for drug policy, but also an important mood test for the cohesion of the coalition, which has only one voice majority. FDP boss dearly assured that the location decision will not lead to a coalition fracture, but this is considered shaky from different sides.

future prospects

Maiwald also revealed plans for the upcoming local elections. He indicated that he would like to bring the FDP back to the fore to ensure that the party has a strong word in the next city council election and becomes part of the upcoming city government. In a further step, he announced that he would reject publicly rejected applications in the future in order to counteract possible conflicts within the party.

The conflict and the urgency of the problem illustrate that drug policy in Frankfurt remains a hot iron. It will be exciting to observe how the positions of the coalition partners develop and which solutions can be found for the benefit of the city and its citizens. The upcoming discussions about the planned Crack search aid center could be crucial for the political landscape in Frankfurt.

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