2023-08-20 05:32:25
“I don’t think the Greens really did anything wrong,” she said in the APA summer interview. Poll values are snapshots, and only following another year of work with the ÖVP will the voters decide on the work of the Greens. The eco-party is going into the 2024 election year debt-free, she emphasized.
The Greens have always advocated solutions for the climate and energy transition, combined with social justice and “really authentic” in implementation, as Voglauer said. The fact that the climate crisis is now on everyone’s lips, but polls do not see her party following three and a half years of government participation in the 13.9 percent share of the vote in the 2019 National Council election, but rather around 10 percent, is probably due to the fact that many people with She suspected that existential concerns were preoccupying her.
It is up to the Greens to communicate their promise for the future – “that people can live a good life here and find a good future for their children and grandchildren” – accordingly. They want to convey “confidence for the future” instead of “supplying populist, simple answers with fears, agitation and noise, which, however, are not a solution in the end”. Under Werner Kogler, the Greens have become a united and strengthened party that has brought calm and objectivity to political discourse in volatile times and also wants to bring the five-year legislative period to an end.
The coalition with the ÖVP was entered into in the knowledge that in many areas it would not be possible to come to a common denominator. Nevertheless, the opportunity was recognized to be able to make progress on climate and social issues that had not been possible before. There are results, such as the climate ticket, the valorization of social benefits, the abolition of cold progression or the eco-social tax reform. She commented neutrally on the fact that the ÖVP is now pushing for the anchoring of cash in the constitution: “She just has to tell us what she means.”
“No chairman debate”
Voglauer has no doubts regarding Kogler’s internal support: “He will be our federal spokesman until 2025, and there is no debate within the party regarding the successor.” At a federal congress in June 2024, he wants to run once more as the top candidate for the upcoming national council elections in autumn. Voglauer does not want to name a specific target for this ballot. “We have one goal, to campaign successfully, yes, and to make the Greens as strong as possible,” she said, but she rejected an exact percentage target as “reading a coffee mess”. A lot is also open in the forthcoming EU elections. The party will vote on this list of candidates on December 16th.
With regard to the National Council election, Voglauer quoted Federal President Alexander van der Bellen as saying: “Those who love their homeland do not divide it.” It’s regarding hope and proof that you can do things differently than those who wanted to act “like Trump in Austria”. Voglauer did not want to accept that a camp election campaign might be imminent, with the FPÖ and the “normal-thinking” ÖVP on the one hand and the SPÖ and the Greens on the other.
On the one hand, the Green Secretary-General sees the position of the Social Democrats as unclear: “First of all, what (Andreas, note) Babler wants and what the SPÖ wants, I think that’s two different things. And then what the SPÖ wants in different federal states , so there we have a whole shoe box.” On the other hand, an election campaign should be less regarding mutual alignment and more regarding discourse with the population.
“Kickl makes Austria gasp”
Accordingly, she did not name any coalition preferences: “There is no partner, who cares, with whom it is easy. Because you cannot implement your own election program, your own party program, your own value program one-to-one in coalitions.” She only showed herself clearly in her rejection of the FPÖ, because the question was what one wanted as a society: “Herbert Kickl is a populist who often makes the world and Austria gasp with hackneyed, populist, sometimes right-wing extremist phrases. We want to something in responsibility for our republic?”
In any case, the 2024 National Council election will be debt-free, with 5 million euros in liabilities to banks and state parties being repaid since 2017. In addition, so much was saved that one might finance the election campaign oneself. For the time following that, one prepares for different scenarios, whether in government or opposition: The primary goal is to continue work on a climate-neutral future and to generate the appropriate enthusiasm for it. Political offices and functions are only borrowed, and even in the opposition role, the Greens have played a major role in shaping politics in Austria for decades, said Voglauer.
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