The greens have given their controversial tubingen mayor boris palmer a clear warning shot – but an expulsion from the party is currently not an issue.

The executive committee of the southwest green party called on palmer to resign from the party on friday evening. "The state executive board expects boris palmer to leave our party." palmer wants to stay with the greens according to his own statements. The federal party is not currently seeking exclusion proceedings.

"The cursory review has shown how difficult it is to assess the chances of success," a party spokeswoman told the deutsche presse-agentur in berlin on saturday. "We therefore place our joint attention on the political mabnahmen."The federal executive board made it clear at the beginning of the week that it would no longer support palmer politically. The baden-wurttemberg state board has now done the same thing. "So now everyone knows that boris palmer speaks only for himself, not for the greens."

Palmer had caused a stir several times with provocative remarks, most recently with a sentence on the treatment of corona patients. "We may save people in germany who were dead in half a year anyway," he said in an interview. He explained his statement with concern for children at risk of poverty, especially in developing countries, whose lives are threatened by the economic consequences of the lockdown. Palmer conceded, however, that his sentence, out of context and sharply worded, had given rise to misunderstanding. He had not spoken of abandoning old and sick people. "It goes without saying that i expect every human being to receive the best possible medical care."

Palmer called on the greens to engage in an open, argumentative debate with him. He is being judged for something he did not say. The grunes participated in transforming democracy into an "arena of elevation," he said. In facebook he wrote on saturday: "I’ve been a member of the grunen since 1995 and have been oberburgermeister for 14 years. The question of whether i represent the fundamental values can also be judged by my actions."

According to their own statements, the baden-wurttemberg greens reserve the right to take legal action against palmer. The state party’s bylaws list possible disciplinary actions against party members: warnings, disqualification from leadership, temporary suspension of membership rights for up to two years, and expulsion from the party.

In an interview with "spiegel" before the state association’s decision, federal leader annalena baerbock said of palmer: "we are a free country, anyone can say what they want. But we have the freedom to make it clear that we will not support another candidacy and his election campaign."

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The leaders of the green and left parties, jurgen trittin and gregor gysi, made forceful demands for a flat minimum wage and more tax fairness as an alternative on the ARD program "der TV-dreikampf" on monday. FDP faction leader rainer bruderle countered: "the best thing we can do is to keep the economy going."

Even if it is uncertain whether the black-yellow coalition will be able to win after the 22nd parliamentary term. Since the september election is not enough and it does not look like there will be a majority for red-green at the moment, the three politicians have remained firm on the coalition issue. "Green change is only possible with strong greens and only in a red-green coalition," trittin said against black-green coalition.

Gysi made it clear that there could be no coalition with the SPD and the greens because of the left’s rejection of military missions abroad and other issues. "Language doesn’t fail because of us, if it does, it’s because of the SPD and the greens," he stressed. Bruderle called the SPD and the greens maximum tax increases and accused the greens of a prohibitionist policy. He once again criticized the fact that the greens are campaigning for one vegetarian day per week in public canteens. Bruderle thus clearly distinguished himself from a traffic light coalition.

Trittin initially set the tone: "the economic situation in germany is good, the situation for many people is not good." gysi called for a change of course. A minimum wage should stem the low-wage sector and mini-jobs. Bruderle countered: "of course you can talk everything down."A uniform minimum wage does not reflect the differences in germany and is economically wrong.

The three politicians were strikingly more vocal and attacked each other more fiercely than chancellor angela merkel (CDU) and SPD challenger peer steinbruck in the TV duel the day before. Pension example: gysi advocated a general inclusion of self-employed persons in the pension fund and a return to retirement at age 65 instead of age 67. Around 40 percent of people are not in dependent employment and therefore do not pay into the pension fund. Bruderle countered: "that is a perfect planned economy, it will lead us astray."Trittin advocated stabilizing pension levels through higher incomes. Among other things, a minimum wage would also serve this purpose.

Trittin defended the tax increases announced by his party in the event of an election victory. In the concept, 90 percent of income earners would have more net income from gross income by raising the basic tax-free allowance. Bruderle railed against it: "i would like to end the marching hour." the green tax tariffs would burden the middle of society.

The three politicians also demonstrated a rough distance when it came to the recipes against the euro crisis. "They want eurobonds," bruderle reproached trittin. The green leader replied: "I didn’t say anything about eurobonds, I just said you have to invest if you want to get out of the must pot."The three also put forward different arguments on the question of how the energy transition can regain momentum without placing a heavier burden on electricity consumers.

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In just a few weeks, the municipal election campaign will begin in the county. So it's no wonder that the TSV oerlenbach theater group has also taken up the theme and chosen a suitable play for its three traditional holiday performances: "love and peace in the district administration office" by andreas wening. But in order to avoid any possibility of comparison with reality, the play's director andreas schmitt (57) has unceremoniously moved the plot of the comedic three-act play to oerlenbach and seriously assures us: "all similarities were really purely coincidental." if you want to see for yourself, you can still get tickets for the theater evenings in the oerlenbacher parish hall on 26. December, 28. December and 29. December (in each case 19:30 o'clock) still tickets at the box office (price 7.00 euro).

Unholy chaos

The 40-square-meter stage of the parish hall – furnished with appropriate decorative pieces from the theater group's collection, but also with loans from oerlenbach residents – has become the district administrator's anteroom, in which chaos is slowly but surely brewing. Although the re-election of the conservative district administrator bernhard oppenau (played by holger sempert), who is respected as a moral authority, is popular with his voters and has been in office for many years, seems to be absolutely certain and only a matter of form, the preparations for the actually superfluous election campaign are started very quietly. But then tamara bloomberg (yvonne kleinhenz), the mother of all hippies, who has been living in the u.S. For years, appears unexpectedly.

Hippie visit from the past

Accompanied by a TV team, she travels through europe to write her memoirs and produce a report on her eventful life. That's why she visits all those who played an important role in her life. Tamara, who is still "flower-power", remembers this and "free love in her style of dress and life, which has long enjoyed cult status in the USA, she also recalls the former student bernhard oppenau, with whom she once shared a flat for a few months, not only the ideals of the time, but also the bed. Flippantly she storms now the contemplative landratsamt and brings with her unconventional kind not only chaos into the quiet life of the landratsamt. This sees itself finally even forced to the wild "love and peace"-to expel the activist from his offices when he unexpectedly learns that tamara's daughter aurora butterfly (jennifer ruger) is also his daughter.

Hash cookies in office

Of course, this is a found food for the embittered opposition leader hilde brustwickel-schnodesenf (conny seitz), who promptly provides the sensation-hungry reporter of the county newspaper, timo treiber (matthias besler), with false information, which is why the county newspaper briefly even reports on the county councilor as a "drowned floater in the cellar" reports. When tamara's carelessly discarded hash-cookie-scissors start making the rounds in the office, chaos really breaks out.

All members of the TSV theater group are involved in the performances in the parish hall, which can hold a maximum of 250 people – whether as actors in twelve different roles, or as prompters (angela koch, sissi schmitt) or make-up artists (sabine werner, graciella katzenberger) – which promises particularly turbulent goings-on on the stage. This year, the theater people are also giving a special holiday treat to employees of the nudlinger lebenshilfe-werkstatt fur behinderte menschen, who will again receive free tickets, as they have for the past eight years. The proceeds from tickets sold will be used to support the voluntary work of TSV oerlenbach.

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