Politics
The mayor is Thomas Günther (CDU). The council’s seats are apportioned thus:
- CDU - 11 seats
- SPD - 6 seats
- FDP - 2 seats
- NEU (Wählergruppe Nierstein Engagiert und Unabhängig) - 2 seats
- FWG (Freie Wähler Gemeinschaft) - 2 seats
- WGK (Wählergruppe Kempener) - 1 seat
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.”
—Philippe Sollers (b. 1936)
“The newspaper reader says: this party is destroying itself through such mistakes. My higher politics says: a party that makes such mistakes is finished—it has lost its instinctive sureness.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“The politics of the exile are fever,
revenge, daydream,
theater of the aging convalescent.
You wait in the wings and rehearse.
You wait and wait.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)