In Neubrandenburg, the primary metropolis council assembly will happen in the present day (3 p.m.) after their choice in opposition to the rainbow flag on the station forecourt and the next announcement of the mayor’s resignation. The occasions induced a nationwide stir. In October, metropolis representatives handed a decision banning the hoisting of the rainbow flag in entrance of the Neubrandenburg practice station. It had been taken down a number of instances prior to now by unknown individuals and partly changed by flags with Nazi symbols.

Mayor Silvio Witt (impartial) introduced his resignation after the choice. According to the brazenly homosexual native politician, the choice got here on the finish of a sequence of incidents together with insults. For the assembly on Wednesday there may be, amongst different issues, a draft decision in keeping with which the rainbow flag ought to be permitted once more. Other templates take care of cosmopolitanism, tolerance and variety or a required gender ban.

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