In this function, he succeeds Werner Philipp, who has been Deputy Mayor since 2020 and Chairman of the Committee for Spatial Planning and Infrastructure since 2015.
Grugl has handed over his previous function as parliamentary group leader to Social Councilor Simone Hackl (ÖVP). This means that all three parliamentary groups in Pregarten (SPÖ, Greens and ÖVP) will be led by women in the future. In the Committee for Spatial Planning and Infrastructure, the lawyer Maria Praher (ÖVP) has been chaired for the first time by a woman.
