Cologne - The poster disfigurement of Cologne: How bad was it ever! And scolds the electorate. EXPRESS went to find the cause, how it should ever come so far with the flood of campaign advertising?
For the current poster-mad six weeks before the election, the politicians themselves have taken care of. In the Council, they had unanimously decided that "the Administration, the parties will impede the exercise of their democratic fundamental right". Since then, the posters "flat-approved". Basically, even three or four posters allowed on a street lamp. But there is a limitation: The advertising must not "verkehrsbehindernd-or even dangerous to be".
"So far, the Public Order Office has approved the setting up of total of 28,000 posters," said Deputy chief officer Hubertus Tempski and speaks of a "new Highligts. In the European elections, the parties have gotten even with 15,000 promotional items.
The response to the nerve-posters: "The majority of posters are not even meaningful. Only heads, "says the clerks Hilde Hilgers (54). "With a witty slogan, we would indeed draufschauen yet, but I go by easily. There, where for miles around is the same picture, annoying it. "No single opinion, as our survey shows.
And: The ADAC has already found infringement. Spokesman Roman Suthold calls the crossings Bonner Street, corner of Kurfürstenstraße and Dürener Street, corner of University Street. "Here are perceived by the low-hanging posters on pedestrian traffic on too late."
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