2023-11-04 17:32:00
Die KPÖ will go into the election campaign with a duo at the top in the upcoming National Council election in 2024. This was decided on Saturday at a joint conference of the Styrian and Federal governments.KPÖ with around 300 participants.
For the first time in 20 years, the Styrian KPÖ and the nationwide one KPÖ met once more for a conference with communists from all over Austria. The participants gathered in the Graz Volkshaus and, according to federal spokesman Günther Hopfgartner, all but one dissenting vote voted to run in the National Council election. The name was “KPÖ – Communist Party of Austria” decided.
Video: Dual leadership of the KPÖ in the election campaign
On the other hand, the top candidates were also elected: Graz-born Schweiger received 88.9 percent approval for first place on the list. Prochaska was elected second with 91.9 percent of the vote. Schweiger said at the press conference following the votes were counted: “I’m pleased KPÖ into the next election year.” The goal is to get into the National Council, “but we won’t give in.”
Die KPÖ wants to score points with the population above all on the issues of inflation, increased housing costs as well as care and ecology: “We want to position ourselves where we already are, namely with people and their everyday concerns.” Neutrality and the role of mediator in war is also a central theme: “This worries people because the war is getting closer and closer to home and more and more people are fleeing to us because they are driven away by the war and are coming Questions arise,” said Schweiger. “There is currently no social conscience in parliament.” This is what we want to be in the House following the election.
Video: KPÖ – course set for the National Council election
Prochaska, who has worked in the nursing sector for 40 years, came to this as a result of the corona pandemic KPÖ: “They were the only ones who heard us,” she said on Saturday. Every day she experiences “how care is being driven to the wall”. Therefore, they say, a strong voice for healthcare workers is needed at the federal level.
The mayor of Graz, Elke Kahr, is “in good spirits that we will do well together next year”. The hope is that they want to continue the work that they have been doing for years – in the municipalities, in the states and perhaps soon also at the federal level. Schweiger and Prochaska are “from life and know what they are talking regarding.” The “working people” need a voice in parliament once more, as do people who have been disadvantaged and “long forgotten by the other parties”. She sees an opportunity to move in because “no worry or concern is too small for us.”
KPÖ sees disappointment in other parties
Kay-Michael Dankl, local councilor in the city of Salzburg and club chairman in the Salzburg state parliament, emphasized that many people in Austria are disappointed with the other parties: “With the KPÖ There is an alternative on the ballot.” He himself did not allow himself to be nominated as the top candidate because he was elected in Salzburg and “you can’t dance at 1,000 weddings.” He will continue to work in Salzburg – as will Kahr in Graz. The mayor’s goal : once once more become a party across the board and across Austria “that stands side by side with the people”.
When asked regarding his position in the Middle East conflict, Schweiger remained diplomatic: “It’s not regarding which side of death you take, but regarding the fact that we in Austria need a party that reminds us of one thing: neutrality has a value. ” Austria should actively participate in the peace dialogue. What is happening in the Middle East is “horrible”. There will be deaths on both sides.
Tobias Schweiger was born in Graz in 1990 and grew up in the Styrian capital. He was active in the Young Greens, co-founded the Young Left Party following the Federal Green Party’s election debacle in 2017 and then joined the KPÖ active. He has been since 2021 KPÖ-Federal spokesman and coordinates political work on housing throughout Austria. Bettina Prochaska was born in Radstadt in 1968 as the daughter of a carpenter and an office worker, has two children and has worked in the care sector since she was 14. She went through several stations there. For the longest time and to this day she has worked in the intensive care unit of the Hospital of the Brothers of Mercy in Salzburg.
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