Local foreign representation

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The Municipal Foreigners 'Representation (KAV) is the foreigners' advisory council for the city of Frankfurt am Main . The political body is elected by the citizens who do not have German citizenship and represents their interests to the community. An electoral term lasts five years.

The KAV was founded in 1991. The turnout in the first election on December 1, 1991 was 19.7 percent. The project was supported by Daniel Cohn-Bendit , among others . Compared to the Hessischer Rundfunk, Cohn-Bendit said: “We want local voting rights , but believe that the KAV is the first step. It is a step in the struggle for political equality for immigrants in this city ”.

In 2000 Albrecht Magen was appointed Head of the Department for Integration and was responsible for the Office for Multicultural Affairs and for the office of the local foreign representation. He was followed by the department heads Jean Claude Diallo and Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg .

In 2005 the KAV Frankfurt had a budget of 60,000 euros. In the election on November 27, 2005, 27 lists applied. The turnout among the approximately 140,000 foreign residents eligible to vote was only 5.7 percent. In 2010, 35 lists stood for election. The turnout rose to 7.6 percent. In the 2015 election, out of 178,225 foreign residents eligible to vote, 6.2 percent took part.

In January 2011 it was reported that there were representatives in the KAV who belonged to the right-wing extremist Turkish Gray Wolves . The chairman of the agah , Corrado Di Benedetto , said they wanted to investigate the "allegations".

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  1. ↑ “Multicultural Cinema. A film advertises the local foreigners' representation ”, hr3 , September 29, 1991.
  2. ↑ “Voting for voters will be intensified” , FAZ , May 20, 2005
  3. ↑ Extremism: Gray Wolf in Multi-Cultural Fur ( Memento from June 15, 2011 in the web archive archive.today ) hr-online.de, January 18, 2011