It is a novelty: Burkhard Jung has been chosen as the first East German mayor to the top of the cities. On the Agenda of the Leipzigers: affordable housing. In the case of transport turn, the panel calls for more pace.

With the Leipzig Burkhard Jung for the first time the mayor of an Eastern German city to the top of the cities ‘ occupations. The SPD politician was elected at the conclusion of the annual General meeting in Dortmund for the next two years.

As the new President wishes Young for an open debate on the rent ceiling of the lungs and other ways to create affordable housing. “We urgently need a discourse on the threat to the social cohesion of such residential price development,” he said.