2023-05-24 04:38:49
Back then, Bruno Kreisky only narrowly beat Hans Czettel. In the other parties, too, votes at federal level are a rarity. In the red state parties, the mayor of Vienna, Michael Ludwig, and the governor of Carinthia, Peter Kaiser, recently had to face one.
The fact that a parliamentary party does not clarify the presidency question before the party congress is a real rarity. In the recent past there was only one contestant at the federal level, namely the NEOS. And here, too, the vote in June 2018 was more of a formality: 94.8 percent of the delegates chose Beate Meinl-Reisinger as the successor to party founder Matthias Strolz. Her opponent, ex-police lawyer and real estate entrepreneur Kaspar Erath, received just 3.2 percent of the votes. The rest voted illegal.
Battle votes also with other parties
In the case of the larger parliamentary parties, one has to go further back in time to find an open duel for party leadership: In 1996, for example, Christoph Chorherr defeated Franz Klug with 61.9 percent of the Greens. In the ÖVP, Erhard Busek made the leap to the top of the party in 1991 with 56.4 percent once morest Bernhard Görg. And in the FPÖ, Jörg Haider prevailed in Innsbruck in 1986 with 57.7 percent once morest Vice Chancellor Norbert Steger.
The SPÖ is traditionally even more concerned with unity. “I am very much in favor of intra-party democracy. But I personally advocate clarifying in advance which person has the broadest support,” said Vienna Mayor Michael Ludwig in 2018 when it came to the successor to the hapless short-term party leader Christian core went. Just a few months earlier, Ludwig himself had fought a duel for the Viennese party leadership once morest Kern’s parliamentary club leader Andreas Schieder. And Carinthia’s state party leader Peter Kaiser also had to assert himself once morest two opponents in his first election in 2010.
At the federal level, the SPÖ has always managed to clarify the leadership question before the party congress. The only exception was the year 1967. At that time, the SPÖ was in opposition following a heavy election defeat. The ÖVP governed with an absolute majority. And SP boss Bruno Pittermann had to go. But there was no agreement on a successor: while the Vienna state party and the trade union wing supported ex-Interior Minister Hans Czettel, several state parties wanted former Foreign Minister Bruno Kreisky. He narrowly prevailed once morest Czettel in the newly elected party executive, which means that there was formally only one candidate. However, the delegates reacted with massive deletions and Kreisky only managed 69.8 percent – the weakest result in the SPÖ party’s history to date.
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