Overview
- The city council will not file a lawsuit against the Arnsberg supervisory authority’s annulment, foregoing an appeal that was possible until 9 December.
- State overseers ruled the resolution unlawful, saying a binding organ decision would reduce AfD councillors to “second-class members” and exclude them from equal participation.
- SPD, Greens, Die Linke, Volt and the Animal Protection Party issued a joint pledge to avoid any cooperation with the AfD and demonstrated outside city hall.
- The CDU also rejects working with the AfD but did not join the rally, and new mayor Alexander Kalouti advised accepting the oversight decision.
- The February resolution—reaffirmed on 9 October under then-mayor Thomas Westphal—sought to bar votes reliant solely on AfD support as the AfD grew to 18 of 104 seats.