2023-12-28 11:58:36
Upper Austrian Federal Councilor Franz Ebner becomes the new Vice President
Vienna (OTS) – On January 1, 2024, there will be a change in the Federal Council and the State Governors’ Conference. The chairmanship of both committees changes every six months; the state of Lower Austria will take over the chairmanship of both institutions for the first half of 2024. The new President of the Federal Council from January 1, 2024 will be the Lower Austrian ÖVP Federal Councilor Margit Göll. She replaces Claudia Arpa from Carinthia, who held the Federal Council presidency for the state of Carinthia in the second half of 2023. The Upper Austrian ÖVP Federal Councilor Franz Ebner will be the new Vice President.
Federal Councilor Margit Göll, born in Gmünd in 1964, is a kindergarten inspector by profession. She has been mayor of the Waldviertel municipality of Moorbach-Harbach since 2010 and a member of the Federal Council since March 2023. Before that, she was active in the Lower Austrian state parliament.
As part of her presidency of the Federal Council, Göll will deal with the topic of “growing together in Europe”. A youth conference is planned at the end of May, at which young people from Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia will report on cross-border youth issues. In June, the Federal Council is scheduled to visit the Gmünd cross-border health center, which will open in 2021 and looks following patients from Austria and the Czech Republic.
Federal Councilor Ebner was born in Steyr in 1979 and is the regional manager of the Upper Austrian Senior Citizens’ Association. The qualified economist is politically active in various committees, for example as district party chairman of the ÖVP Linz-Land since 2022 and as a member of the municipal council of the municipality of St. Marien since 2021.
The chairwoman of the ÖVP Federal Council faction, Andrea Eder-Gitschthaler, wishes Göll and Ebner much success in their new tasks and thanked Claudia Arpa for her previous chairmanship. (Ending)
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