The party expulsion process against the Green politician is likely to drag on for several months.
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Tubingen In the dispute over the threatened exclusion from the party, Tübingen’s Green Mayor Boris Palmer is now getting broader support from within the ranks for the first time. A group of supporters around the former State Secretary for Development Uschi Eid has been collecting signatures in the party since mid-December for the probably best-known German town hall chief to stay with the Greens. Around 500 members, mainly from the Baden-Württemberg state association, signed the appeal published on Monday.
Among the signatories are former prominent Green politicians such as the former Bundestag Vice President Antje Vollmer. From the southwest, for example, Klaus-Peter Murawski, the long-time head of the State Chancellery of Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann, and ex-Environment Minister Franz Untersteller have signed.
The appeal complains, among other things, “that intellectual eccentrics have a hard time in our party and that characters are not seen as interesting enrichments”. Nonetheless, the supporters also considered “some of the statements made by Boris to be inappropriate, tasteless, insulting or disturbing”.