On May 25th 2014, there will be three elections in Stuttgart: The regional and municipal election and the Europe Parliament election. In the streets, for weeks people have been fed with posters from all parties and certainly amusement is never absent. It is also a good chance to get a feel about what do the people from the Stuttgart region care about. So today I'm going to document some posters I saw in the streets, be the topic serious or funny.
First of all, for those who don't quite know about Stuttgart yet:
- according to the Wikipedia article, economically it has the highest general standard of prosperity of any city in Germany, and
- according to a Spiegel article, it is also the culturally richest city in Germany.
Here we go. The photos are hosted on Flickr. If you would like to see bigger photos, you can click the photos to enlarge, but remember to click the Backward button on your browser to come back to this entry from Flickr:
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S21 Objectors vs FDP |
On the left is a small stand for collecting signatures for a petition for a referendum. What will be the referendum about? The text on the upper left tells:
- No 339 millions of Euro from our civil budget. Deutsche Bahn should, like others (railway companies), pay for her own station;
- The saved resources can be used for facilities such as kindergartens and schools.
Background: For many years, some people in Stuttgart are persistently against Deutsche Bahn's project
Stuttgart 21 (S21). Several referendums have been done in the past years and the results favoured this project. So now the objectors are trying to approach their goal in another way. Without municipal and state financial support, the project S21 will not be possible. I guess they are trying to stop the S21 project by trying to retract the public financial support.
On the right are two candidates from the
Free Democratic Party (FDP) for the local election. The liberal FDP is for investment and economic growth.