Nov. 6 () –
95 percent of the participants in the referendum held this Sunday in the city of Frankfurt have voted in favor of the removal of its mayor, the controversial Peter Feldmann.
“It seems that I will stop being the mayor as of Friday,” Feldmann himself declared after knowing the first data of the count, collected by the German public television ARD.
Participation has reached almost 200,000 people, and far exceeds the 30 percent of the census –152,455 votes– necessary to validate the referendum to displace the politician from the Social Democratic Party (SPD). The 50 percent required for dismissal has also been exceeded.
Feldmann is being investigated in court for corruption related to the high wages of the Association of Welfare Workers (AWO), charges he denies.
He was also the center of a controversy when he snatched the Europa League Cup from the captain of Eintracht Frankfurt, Sebastian Roede, to show it on the balcony of the City Hall after stating on the return flight that the stewardesses “have knocked out my hormones”. He was declared a ‘persona non grata’ by the club.
