As of: March 28, 2024, 8:16 a.m
By: Georg Leppert
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The 34-year-old Mirrianne Mahn from Frankfurt goes to Ökolinx-ELF and makes serious accusations against her previous group. Is there now a risk of a dispute over the mandate?
Frankfurt – surprise in the Römer. The nationally prominent city councilor Mirrianne Mahn is leaving the party and parliamentary group of the Greens. She joins Ökolinx-ELF, an association of Ökolinx city councilors Jutta Ditfurth and Manfred Zieran as well as Luigi Brillante from the Europalist Frankfurt. Mahn makes serious accusations against the Greens - which causes anger and incomprehension there.
The 34-year-old made her move public in a press conference on Tuesday afternoon. She joined the party in 2020 after the Hanau murders to campaign against racial profiling and racist narratives in the city parliament. “Unfortunately, my commitment from the local elections to today has been overshadowed primarily by resistance within my party,” she said.
Mahn makes serious allegations against the Frankfurt Greens
Specifically, Mahn made accusations against former party leader Beatrix Baumann. Before the 2021 local elections, Baumann tried to stop her from running for a promising place on the list. After she entered the city council, individual colleagues from her group behaved toward her in an “insulting, discriminatory, undemocratic and racist” manner. She finally antagonized the conservative wing of the Greens in autumn 2021. At that time, she interrupted the speech of the then mayor Peter Feldmann in the Paulskirche on the occasion of the awarding of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade and criticized the presence of right-wing publishers at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Mirrianne Mahn (center) is new to Ökolinx-ELF. Next to her are city councilors Manfred Zieran and Jutta Ditfurth. Renate Hoyer © Renate Hoyer
Mahn made serious allegations against her group. She was “disinvited” by her own people from a plenary session where a motion to ban racist terms was to be voted on.
Dispute over motion on racist terms
The Greens had the application postponed at the time in order to later submit a proposal agreed upon by the coalition. Mahn had heavily criticized this approach. The group leaders reported her sick, “even though I wasn’t sick.” City council leader Hilime Arslaner then requested an email with a sick note.
The final break came when she ran for the Greens' European list last fall. The federal chairman, Omid Nouripour, had created massive sentiment against them. At the delegates' conference in Karlsruhe, a member of the Green Party even knocked the speech manuscript out of her hand.
Frankfurt Greens defend themselves against half-truths
The Frankfurt Greens were completely taken by surprise by Mahn's departure on Tuesday. They only found out about it after the press conference.
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Nouripour and Arslaner declined to comment on the allegations. The group leaders Dimitrios Bakakis and Tina Zapf-Rodriguez said they could not confirm most of the allegations. The fact that Mahn is retaining her mandate as a city councilor is “not okay – she was elected to the city council via the green list.” Only Beatrix Baumann, who was district chairwoman until 2021 and sits for the Greens in the city parliament, commented in detail “Here are facts twisted,” she said. Warn external “half-truths”. It was never possible to have a professional and factual discussion with Mirrianne Mahn. “If you had a different opinion than her, it was always immediately interpreted as racism,” said Baumann.
Joy with Jutta Ditfurth
Meanwhile, Ökolinx-ELF is very happy about the new addition. She admires Mahn for her “creative power, intelligence, wit and resilience,” said parliamentary group leader Jutta Ditfurth. She referred to Mahn's successes as an author and theater maker. “We are on the same side on essential issues,” said Ditfurth: “Against all forms of racism and anti-Semitism, for ecology, feminism and grassroots democracy.” (Georg Leppert, Julia Lorenz)