Viewpoint: After five years in the same boat

Greens and Neos are fighting once morest the fate that befalls many junior partners in a government – descent into insignificance.

When the ÖVP decided in May 2018 to enter into a government with the Greens and Neos, a spin was urgently needed. Because what’s the best way to sell a black-green-pink experiment? The child was called the “Alliance of the Middle”. From then on, she was to govern Salzburg, conservatively, but with green and liberal icing on the cake.

Five years later, the two coalition partners on the side of the dominant ÖVP are marginalized and – with the opposition bench in mind – are fighting once morest descent into insignificance. …

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