Citizens' decision to vote out the Lord Mayor of Duisburg

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Citizens' decision 2012
85.75%
14.25%
Yes No

The referendum on the election of the Lord Mayor of Duisburg took place on February 12, 2012. It led to Adolf Sauerland being voted out of office , who came under heavy pressure due to the accident at the Love Parade in 2010 .

prehistory

A resolution by the city council of Duisburg to vote out the mayor on September 13, 2010 failed because the two-thirds majority required for this was not achieved. 41 council members voted for Sauerland to be deselected, 28 voted against. Five council members were absent from the vote.

On May 18, 2011, at the request of the Left , the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia passed the law to initiate voting procedures for mayors and district administrators through citizens' petitions . It was only through this law that mayors and district administrators in North Rhine-Westphalia could be voted out.

As a result, the citizens' initiative Neuanfang für Duisburg , consisting of Werner Hüsken, Theo Steegmann and Harald Jochums, collected over 79,000 signatures by mid-October for a referendum to vote out Duisburg's Mayor Adolf Sauerland, 68,000 of which were recognized by the electoral office. This corresponded to almost 22% or almost 19% of the almost 365,000 citizens of Duisburg who are eligible to vote , which means that the quorum of 15% required for this referendum was achieved. The date for voting out was set for February 12, 2012.

Result of the referendum

Result of the referendum
Deselection? be right Share 1 Share 2
Yes 129,626 085.75% 035.52%
No 021,538 014.25% 005.90%
Valid votes 151.164 100% 041.42%
Invalid votes 000398 000.11%
Votes cast 151,562 041.53%
Eligible voters 364.910 100%

The turnout was 41.53%, as a total of 364,910 citizens were eligible to vote. This means that 35.52% of all eligible voters voted for Sauerland to be voted out. For voting out, at least 25% of the votes of all eligible voters and more than 50% of the valid votes cast would have been necessary. The Duisburg mayor was voted out of office.

consequences

On February 15, 2012, the electoral committee decided that he had been voted out of office, so that Adolf Sauerland resigned from office as Lord Mayor of Duisburg at the end of that day .

The official business was provisionally taken over by the city ​​director Peter Greulich (tasks of the head of administration) and the previous First Mayor Benno Lensdorf (representative tasks, chairing the council meetings). The elders agreed on 17 June 2012 as the election date for the successor, subject to the approval of the Regional Council of Dusseldorf. In the election on June 17, 2012, Sören Link (SPD) received 48.3% of the vote, ahead of his CDU opponent Benno Lensdorf, who achieved 21.12%, but missed an absolute majority. In the runoff election on July 1, 2012, Sören Link achieved 71.96% of the vote and was elected the new Lord Mayor of the city of Duisburg.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b referendum February 12, 2012. Overall result ( memento of October 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) City of Duisburg
  2. ↑ OB deselection failed. Sauerland sits out the Love Parade - blockade threatens. Archived from the original on September 10, 2012 ; accessed on July 12, 2019 . Ruhr-Nachrichten, September 13, 2010
  3. ↑ Law to initiate voting procedures for mayors and district administrators through citizens' petitions, Law and Ordinance Gazette (GV. NRW.). Issue 2011 No. 12 from June 3, 2011 pages 269 to 278
  4. ↑ Christian Schwerdtfeger: 79,149 citizens want OB Sauerland deselect. In: Rheinische Post . October 17, 2011, accessed September 4, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Alfons Winterseel: 79 193 citizens against Sauerland. In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . October 17, 2011, accessed September 4, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Duisburg could deselect OB. N-tv , November 24, 2011, accessed September 4, 2015 .
  7. ↑ The case of Adolf Sauerland documentary WDR from February 13, 2012 part 2 of 2nd video (see 2nd of 19 min.) SauerlandAbwahl2012 channel on YouTube , February 13, 2012, accessed on September 4, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Announcement of the final result of the vote on the removal of the Lord Mayor of the City of Duisburg from February 12, 2012 ( Memento from February 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) City of Duisburg
  9. ↑ Duisburg chooses freely. Agency report. In: Spiegel Online . February 12, 2012, accessed November 28, 2016 .
  10. ^ City of Duisburg: The Lord Mayor ( Memento from February 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) City of Duisburg, accessed on February 18, 2012
  11. ↑ Duisburg would like to vote for Sauerland successor in mid-June Rheinische Post Online, February 23, 2012, accessed on February 23, 2012.
  12. ↑ SPD candidate is in runoff against CDU opponents. Agency report. In: Spiegel Online . June 17, 2012, accessed November 28, 2016 .
  13. ↑ SPD candidate becomes mayor: Sören Link is elected WDR, July 1, 2012