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The maverick town mayor

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The maverick town mayor

Jörg Luyken
Oct 25, 2022
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Germany’s most famous (and perhaps infamous) town mayor has won a barnstorming electoral victory, leading to embarrassment for the Green party, who’d tried to disown him.

Boris Palmer might only be mayor of Tübingen, a town of 90,000 inhabitants in Baden-Württemberg, but he is also one of Germany’s most recognisable political figures.

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