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In a proper democracy shit like this would lead to people voting for a party with the same values as the mayor but without the infighting. Hell, perhaps the mayor would even jump ship themself. This pressure then forces the corrupt party to either fix themselves or vanish.
In Germany we got enough parties so they can completely tank for a while for doing stupid shit, then recover organically. The Greens did that, The Left just recovered, the Libertarians… hopefully never recover. Well, except for the conservatives/right-wing 'cause old as well as pissed off people do not properly think about it anymore (conservatices just lose because old people are dying). An inherent issue with democracy you're completely at the mercy of.
A 2-Party system simply can't properly work.
A strong FDP hurts the CDU/CSU and even more importantly AfD disproportionately. That is a very good thing. If they have 5 to 10% in perpetuity that'll be a very good thing indeed. Any more than that though and they can fuck right off again, because not least of all the way the AfD slotted straight into where the FDP sat (but at least with some of a cordon sanitaire) is creeping me out like few other things.
A strong FDP hurts us as badly as the CDU/CSU does. They're equally corrupt and opportunistic. Without the nazi threat they'd arguably even be worse given the conservatives at least can be convinced into neccessary investments by now, while the FDP would "privatize" their own child. However since both parties are very close to jumping into bed with nazis there really isn't a worse one right now.
It's important for all three of those parties to be weak if we want to tackle the big problems.