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Steffen Romstöck said that he would respect the residents’ choice and would take over the helm of the municipality, even if he didn’t run
This past weekend voters in the town of Röttingen, in the German State of Bavaria, elected their new mayor with a 51.9% majority. This news would seem rather ordinary and unremarkable if it wasn’t for the fact that the winner’s name was not on the ballots. Voters wrote the name of Steffen Romstöck manually on the ballots before casting them.
Mr Romstöck will thus become the new mayor of the town, numbering 1,600 residents, beating the only official candidate on the ballot Jürgen Boier. Romstöck takes over the office of mayor from Hermann Gabel, who resigned at the end of July for health reasons.
"I was very surprised. I assumed that I would get a few votes - but not the absolute majority," explained the non-party member Romstöck, as quoted by BR.
This story is intriguing as it raises a bunch of questions regarding legality and democracy.
One may wonder if Steffen Romstöck was so popular with the local residents then why didn’t he just officially run in the election?
Well, he couldn’t because the local council nominated two candidates, of which only one was chosen at a nomination meeting on 22 July (attended by some residents). This strange process made the official election just a meaningless formality since there were no other approved candidates on the ballot.
Many of the local voters, however, disagreed with this state of affairs and apparently organized in a grassroots manner (through WhatsApp groups) to just write down the name of their preferred candidate on the ballot.
Steffen Romstöck had initially refused to officially run but announced that if elected in this guerilla-style method he would respect the choice of the voters.
It appears that according to the Bavarian electoral law, any German citizen who is at least 18 years old can write their name on the ballot paper by hand and thus vote. That settles the question of legality. However, the question of plurality and democratic choice in the process of nominating mayoral candidates in the town of Röttingen remains open.
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