2023-06-04 11:49:52
The SPÖ women’s leader and Upper Austrian member of the National Council Eva-Maria Holzleitner on Sunday encouraged the new federal party leader Hans Peter Doskozil in his line of not wanting to enter into a coalition not only with the FPÖ but also with the ÖVP following the next election. In view of the positions on women’s politics that the two parties represent in the coalitions in Upper Austria, Lower Austria and Salzburg, she sees “no points of overlap”.
Only shortly following Doskozil’s freestyle, both Vienna’s mayor Michael Ludwig and the outgoing Vorarlberg state chairwoman Gabriele Sprickler-Falschlunger expressed skepticism regarding rejecting a future coalition partner ÖVP in view of the still unclear majority following the next election. Ludwig only wanted to understand Doskozil’s announcement as a suggestion. “We’ll see what that looks like in the further discussion.” Sprickler-Falslunger advised Doskozil not to make promises you mightn’t keep.
Holzleitner was able to gain something from the rejection of the ÖVP in an interview with the ORF program “Hohes Haus”. After all, there are even regressions in women’s politics in the federal states led by the ÖVP-FPÖ, she referred to a “herd bonus” and a questioning of abortions in Salzburg. “From that point of view, I can understand and support this announcement.” The goal must be a progressive majority following the next election – “in the very best case” as a two-party coalition with the Greens, if necessary in a traffic light with the Greens and NEOS.
Doskozil himself justified his preference for a three-party coalition with the Greens and NEOS in the “Kronen Zeitung” (Sunday edition) with his experiences as a minister in an SPÖ-ÖVP government. “It was cheeky how it was lived. Why are mirror ministries needed for control?” said the SPÖ leader. “You have to live coalitions differently. It needs a basis of trust.”
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