Strasburg (dpa/mv) – The citizens of Strasburg (Uckermark) in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district should decide directly whether Mayor Heike Hammermeister-Friese (CDU) should be voted out of office. The majority of the city council of the small town decided on Thursday. Several factions had previously asked the CDU politician to resign, which Hammermeister-Friese rejected. The reason given by the city representatives was that “the trust in the actions and the factual work of the mayor among the city representatives was now permanently disturbed”. There has been a dispute between the two sides for months.
The 43-year-old was directly elected to office in 2018 for a seven-year term. At that time, she prevailed with almost 57 percent of the votes in the runoff against SPD candidate Marina Raulin. Her husband, Norbert Raulin (SPD), was mayor in Strasburg from 1990 to 2015 and then stopped running. In the city council, the CDU has four seats, two citizens’ initiatives and the left three seats each, the SPD two and the AfD one.
Strasburg is the only Uckermark city in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, it has 27 districts, is located directly on the state border with Brandenburg and has around 4,500 inhabitants.
