FDP Tests New Formats for Citizen Participation
25 interested people gathered in the “Küche” at the Fünferlsteg and joined in a lively discussion. The FDP city council group has set itself the goal of more transparency and more citizen participation. Several times a year …
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25 interested people gathered in the “Küche” at the Fünferlsteg and joined in a lively discussion. The FDP city council group has set itself the goal of more transparency and more citizen participation. In future, several times a year, it will hold so-called “open group meetings” to inform its own council candidates, FDP members and the wider public about its work on Passau city council.
After just four weeks on the city council, FDP group members Holm Putzke, Sebastian Frankenberger and Georg Steiner already had plenty to report. Several motions and enquiries have been put to Lord Mayor Andreas Rother. At the centre of the participation and transparency initiative is the group’s website www.fdp-fraktion-passau.de. “It is both a record of our work on the city council and a participation tool for citizens,” says deputy group chairman Sebastian Frankenberger. “We don’t just want to talk about digitalisation and artificial intelligence, we want to use them and try them out in everyday politics.” A survey tool was used to find out how the public views the initiative to switch to performance-based pay for the mayors. Georg Steiner was able to report that two thirds of the survey participants supported this initiative.
According to group chairman Holm Putzke, the FDP group has already reached “operating temperature” for active work on the city council. Translating the detailed election manifesto into concrete council work is under way, Putzke said.
The open group meeting serves to present the initiatives that have been launched and to gather input for further work. The representatives of the Liberal University Group and the Young Liberals, Simon Wrana and Nick Haug, were delighted that the FDP has now launched the initiative to revive the youth council. The discussion showed that there is a large backlog of unresolved problems in Passau. The implementation of citizens’ suggestions has so far left much to be desired. These include the areas of environment and energy, transport, relations between the city and the surrounding area, and much more. FDP district chairman Nick Kelldorfner was very pleased with the pace and quality with which the elected FDP city councillors are tackling their work. This will also give the FDP in Passau as a whole a tailwind, said Kelldorfner.
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