In the affair surrounding Mitte’s district mayor, Stephan von Dassel (Greens), the district canceled the controversial recruitment process. Due to the current press reports about the SMS traffic between the district mayor and an applicant, a selection of the best no longer seems possible, writes the district office in a letter to the applicants, which is available to the daily mirror.
“Rather, it can be assumed that the selection decision to be made will not withstand a judicial review.” concern of bias will be lifted”.
The decision to break off the procedure was also based on the fact that the previous selection decision had been overturned in connection with a judicial procedure.
The background to this is the allegation against von Dassel of having privately offered money to an unsuccessful applicant for the position of head of the control service in the district office so that he could withdraw his complaint against the selection decision.
In this case, the position would have been given to a confidant of Dassels, who is a member of the district executive of the Greens in Mitte and who coordinates the “radical Realos” camp within the district, to which the district mayor also belongs. But it did not get to that. Instead, the district office repeated the recruitment process – before it was now canceled.
Von Dassel has been heavily criticized for the allegations. On Thursday, the Mitte district assembly (BVV) will deal with a motion to vote out the district mayor for the first time in one of two special sessions.
Previously, the CDU, FDP and Linke as well as Dassel’s own Greens parliamentary group and the SPD, who together form a census community in the BVV, called on the mayor to resign. The state chairmen of the Greens, Susanne Mertens and Philmon Ghirmai, had also urged von Dassel to take this step.
However, the district mayor only declared on Tuesday that he did not want to comply. “I will not resign. Because that would mean acknowledging the allegations,” said von Dassel.
