SPD politician Burkhard Jung: Leipziger OB new president of the town



What's new: Burkhard Jung was Germany's first mayor of the East to be elected to the highest of the town council. Within the Leipzig agenda: inexpensive housing. When altering visitors, the panel requires extra velocity.


For the primary time, the mayor of a German metropolis within the east was appointed head of the municipal council with Burkhard Jung of Leipzig. The SPD politician was elected on the conclusion of the annual Normal Meeting in Dortmund for the subsequent two years.


As a brand new president, Jung hopes to have an open debate on capping rent and different methods to create inexpensive housing. "We urgently want a speech on the menace to social cohesion on such housing worth growth," he stated.



Speak about ice cream leases


The 61-year-old criticized an "unacceptable growth", for instance, if rents had risen above taxes for furnished residing. Relying on the scenario, it additionally considers a brief freezing of rents as doable, as is at the moment beneath dialogue in Berlin. Constructing Senator Katrin Lompscher (left) desires to freeze rents for privately funded flats within the capital for 5 years subsequent 12 months. With Junge's counterparts, nevertheless, this concept meets with shared approval.


Jung has been head of the Leipzig municipality since 2006 and needs to be re-elected within the spring. He was the one candidate for the best place within the highest municipal affiliation and took part within the race and adopted the mayor of Münster Markus Lewe (CDU). This passes to the position of Vice President. For the primary vp, the committee elected Stuttgart Metropolis Councilor Fritz Kuhn of the Greens.


Town council claims to characterize the pursuits of 3400 cities and municipalities with 52 million inhabitants in comparison with federal and state governments.


Demand for velocity to the purpose of adjusting visitors


In its "Dortmund Declaration", which was lastly concluded, the fee highlighted, amongst different issues, its demand for larger velocity within the transport sector: the federal and state governments ought to present 20 billion euros for funding in mobility sustainable within the subsequent ten years. You will need to strengthen public transport and redistribute the area accessible in cities, the assertion reads.


A "CO2 emissions pricing" additionally considers cities as an "acceptable and obligatory strategy" to creating higher progress in local weather safety. In each metropolis there are alternatives to contribute much more to attaining the Paris local weather targets. On the identical time, it was essential to advertise acceptance of the mandatory steps within the inhabitants, Tagvize Lewe confused.


As regards to property tax, probably the most essential sources of municipal revenue, the Metropolis and Metropolis Affiliation referred to as as soon as once more for a fast resolution. "That is over € 14 billion a 12 months, used to finance municipal infrastructure," stated Jung. Till the top of 2019, the property tax have to be redefined as a result of it's incompatible with the Primary Legislation within the earlier kind.




The Tagesschau reported on this topic on 06 June 2019 at 17:00.





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