2023-10-19 22:01:22
Issue from Friday, October 20, 2023
Innsbruck (OTS) – The widely announced agreement in the bourgeois camp lasted less than four weeks. But instead of content, it’s purely regarding positions and power. The race for the mayor’s chair is therefore more open than ever.
The plan for the ÖVP sounded promising. To bring back the mayor’s office in the state capital, take a united civil camp, a candidate who enters the race unscathed by the catastrophic current period, and emphasize that the incumbent mayor has made too many mistakes and a change is needed. Less than four weeks following the agreement with For Innsbruck, the city’s ÖVP is divided once more. The once promising plan didn’t work out and looks somewhat naive in the rearview mirror.
Hannes Anzengruber has shattered the ideal bourgeois world with the discussions of the past few weeks and his decision to run with his own list. The ÖVP simply did not manage to integrate the deputy mayor, who is well respected among the population, in such a way that a common course is possible. This also damages the designated candidate for mayor, Florian Tursky.
Anzengruber puts everything on one card and takes a high political risk. Apparently inspired by a lot of support from those around him, he even wants to become mayor. That seems daring at the moment – but the race for the mayor’s chair is definitely more open than ever. Yesterday was a good day for incumbent Georg Willi (Greens). If up to four ambitious candidates from the center to the right (Tursky, Anzengruber, FP vice-president Markus Lassenberger and GR Depaoli) take each other’s votes, then that might well be enough for the ailing city boss to get into the runoff election.
Both Anzengruber, Tursky and the ÖVP also have a credibility problem. Both sides emphasize that it is regarding the content and not regarding the positions or power. But so far no one has presented any kind of programmatic approach. Anzengruber, who appeared defiantly motivated yesterday, did not want or might say anything regarding differences in content with his home party. He himself had no ideas as to why he would be the better mayor.
As well as? It’s regarding power and position. The ÖVP’s once promising plan will need a revision. Instead of going into the election with an undamaged candidate, we now have to explain why Anzengruber should no longer be a party member and whether FI boss Christine Oppitz-Plörer is actually pulling the strings behind the scenes, who previously also ran with her own list is.
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