2023-04-21 22:00:23
Innsbruck (OTS) – The FPÖ is likely to be the winner once more on Sunday and loudly cheer the election result. But does Wilfried Haslauer, unlike Mattle, Mikl-Leitner and Kaiser, manage to prevent the governor’s party from falling?
Sunday. 17 o’clock. Nervous politicians and a crowd of media representatives gather in the Chiemseehof, seat of the Salzburg state parliament. The first extrapolation will be announced a few minutes following 5 p.m. And as in the state elections in Tyrol, Lower Austria and most recently Carinthia, the FPÖ will once more have a plus – sometimes a strong one. The Liberals benefit from the issues, a badly battered federal government and a divided SPÖ. In addition, Salzburg’s top candidate Marlene Svazek understood in the election campaign how to kick the ball in terms of content, but in a more moderate way compared to the FPÖ leader. The FPÖ might therefore come within striking distance of the provincial governor’s party ÖVP. But what happens to the gain?
Salzburg’s ÖVP boss and governor Wilfried Haslauer clearly signaled in 2018 that he didn’t even want to touch the FPÖ. Instead, he set the course for the first three-party coalition in Austria. But this government, formed by the ÖVP, the Greens and the NEOS, might lose its majority tomorrow, Sunday. And the FPÖ is hoping for that. She wants what she already has in black-dominated Upper and Lower Austria: government responsibility. Because that way she can continue to prepare her attack on the chancellor’s office. Maybe too cocky? It may be, but the FPÖ has long been ahead in Austria-wide polls. It is up to the ÖVP on Sunday to decide whether it is willing and able to thwart the plans of the FPÖ. If – as in the previous state elections – there is a slump in the governor’s party, Haslauer will have a hard time, should he be able to leave the FPÖ outside the door at all. He must secretly hope that the Greens and NEOS will compensate for what the ÖVP is losing everywhere. Difficult enough, because the NEOS threaten to tip out of the state parliament.
The SPÖ is not likely to offer itself as a partner on Sunday. Your top candidate David Egger might get the bill for the power struggle in the party. In addition, the KPÖ threatens trouble from the left. And it will be overtaken by the FPÖ, as was the case recently in Tyrol and Lower Austria. Sunday. 17 o’clock.
The wait for a result of federal political relevance is over. The election will trigger a new dynamic, the National Council election might be brought forward. The pre-election campaign has already started. And this election might bring changes that many cannot yet imagine.
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