2024-03-19 03:02:00
Stefan Lanner is writing local history in the Lammertal community with his election victory.
Similar to Martin Dietrich in Golling, the election victory in Rußbach also came as a surprise for the election winner: “I thought it would be close, but you never know something like that beforehand. I hoped that we would at least get enough votes to do that “To be able to hold on as deputy mayor.” This is now represented by the ÖVP, which lost its absolute majority, but with four mandates still has one more than the SPÖ (the FPÖ has two).
The election as the first “red” mayor in the town’s 120-year history also presented him with a different kind of challenge – because he had only recently started a new job: “Since I didn’t expect to win the election, I had to “I have to gently teach my new employer that I have to reduce my hours by at least half,” says the trained electrician and IT technician in the TN interview. In the future, he wants to be at the local municipal office on Tuesdays and Thursdays, “and a lot of work from home can now be done.”
A young old hand in local politics
Despite his young age, the 43-year-old is already an old hand in local politics: in 2003, Vice Mayor Barbara Ortner brought him to the SPÖ, and from 2004 to 2009 he sat on the local council and was local party chairman. With the election defeat in 2009 (the SPÖ only had two mandates), Stefan Lanner also lost his seat in the local parliament of the Lammertal community. In 2014, a new SPÖ team led by the later deputy mayor Matthias Kraft took part, and in 2019 Lanner also returned to the general meeting. In December 2022, he took over the deputy mayor’s office when Kraft moved from Rußbach.
The fact that the ÖVP still has the majority of mandates doesn’t worry him: “I’m confident that the cooperation will continue to work as well as it did in the last period; I have a good relationship with many in the ÖVP and also with them two new FPÖ mandates.”
Affordable housing, a supermarket and renewable energy
It is particularly important in the coming period to create affordable living space, to promote renewable energies (e.g. with energy communities and e-charging stations in the town center) and to get a supermarket back in the town (the Adeg local supplier closed in the autumn 2019, currently there is only a small village shop). In addition, efforts must be made to secure the Kirchenwirt and the Seestüberl, “these are extremely important businesses for village life and we cannot lose them.”
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