Steinruck confirmed: No candidacy for OB election 2025!

The Mayor of Ludwigshafen, Jutta Steinruck, announced in an interview with the Rheinpfalz that she will not compete for the upcoming mayor election on September 28, 2025. In her decision, she describes this step as very personal and emphasizes the importance of clarity and honesty by announcing her intentions one year before the election. Steinruck's term of office ends in January 2025 after eight years in which she shaped the city.

Steinruck said that she no longer had a scope for design and warned of a possible clear cut in Ludwigshafen. She criticizes the financial policy of the federal and state governments that financially burdened municipalities like Ludwigshafen, and appeals to a facing and shaped policy. She had already raised critical voices in the past, among other things in a "rage speech" in the city council in January 2023, in which she has strongly questioned the financial policy of the past 30 years.

challenges and challenges during your term

In recent years, Steinruck has had to overcome numerous global challenges, including pandemic, the Ukraine conflict and the accommodation of refugees. It emphasizes the high effort associated with these topics and demands a fairer financial resources from the municipalities by the state and the federal government. Steinruck expresses concern about possible social and infrastructural cuts due to the budgetary situation and calls for structural solutions at the federal level to support cities.

So far, only Klaus Blettner from the CDU and FWG has expressed his interest as possible successor to Steinruck's office. The SPD plans to present its own candidates in January 2024. In retrospect, Steinruck emphasizes success in urban development, such as the reconstruction of Hochstraße Süd and the housing construction, and emphasizes the importance of an open dialogue with the citizens and the need to gain qualified personnel for the administration.

At the end of her announcement, Steinruck expresses that she could disappoint people who encouraged them to return again, it makes it clear that under the current conditions they do not have the necessary level of energy and strength for a further term. She announces that it continues to work with all the matters of Ludwigshafen in the remaining time.