Editing Plön (section)

==Politics==

===Town council===
Plön's town council consists of 23 councillors.
{| border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="60%"
|- bgcolor="#eeeeee" align="center"
| || [[Christian Democratic Union (Germany)|CDU]] || [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|SPD]] || [[Free Voters|FWG]]-Plön  || [[Green Party (Germany)|Die Grünen]] ||  [[Free Democratic Party (Germany)|FDP]] || '''Total'''
|- align="center"
| 2013 || 8 || 7 || 4 || 3 || 1 || 23 seats
|}
(as of municipal [http://www.ingo-buth.de/2013/05/27/wahlergebnisse-im-wahlbezirk-1-und-in-der-stadt/ election in May 2013])

===Mayor===
After a [[Two-round system|runoff]] on 21 November 2004 Jens Paustian became Plön's mayor.
The current mayor, Lars Winter, was elected in 2006.

===Coat of arms===
[[File:Plön altes Wappen.jpg|thumb|upright|Old coat of arms at the gate from ''Lange Straße'' to the castle]]
The [[coat of arms]] shows on a silver background above silver and blue waves in which a red fish is swimming, a red, full-width, low crenellated wall made of bricks, on top of which is a short, red crenellated tower with two black window arches; over the tower hovers Holstein's coat of arms (in red a silver nettle leaf)<!---Sorry. Someone else can try putting that in heraldry language.--->

===Partnerships===
*{{Flagicon|Germany}} [[Plau am See]], [[Mecklenburg-Vorpommern]], since 1990
*{{Flagicon|Russia}} A sponsorship arrangement also exists with the town of Zhilino (formerly the German town of Schillen) in the old Tilsit-Ragnit district in [[Russia]]'s [[Kaliningrad Oblast]], in what was once [[East Prussia]].
*{{Flagicon|Tunisia}} [[Ksour Essef]], [[Tunisia]], since 1969
*{{Flagicon|Estonia}}Plöns Kreis is the partnership of Lääne-Virumaa county in Estonia