2023-08-21 20:00:30
Innsbruck (OTS) – The drama in the Innsbruck People’s Party regarding the top candidate for the Innsbruck mayoral election is inevitable. Green and blue are happy regarding that – and are already damaging the ÖVP’s ambitions for the election.
First row footless. In the past few months and years, the other parties have been able to watch how Innsbruck’s mayor Georg Willi has developed from the glorious winner of the 2018 municipal council elections into a political problem child through a number of mistakes and strategic mistakes. Early elections were meanwhile in the room. But the “bourgeois forces” might not agree on this any more than they might on an undisputed candidate. Now Willi, for his part, can watch from the front row without feet as the ÖVP opens up new trenches in the search for a front man (or at least a front woman) instead of filling in old ones.
In any case, the drama seems inevitable. With State Secretary Florian Tursky (recently noticeable often at appointments in Tyrol), there is probably a candidate on whom the ÖVP and Für Innsbruck might agree and who would have a good chance in the election. But obviously they didn’t reckon with the (former Alm) innkeeper. Because Vice Mayor Hannes Anzengruber not only booked himself as the top candidate last year, but obviously has no interest in going back to the second row. Anzengruber, who was already shot down internally during this municipal council period and then came back, seems to want to fight once more for his political future, demands a member survey and might – intentionally or not – probably also want to inflate the price for himself and a replacement post. Only: It’s not that easy, even with a view to the EU and National Council elections.
Another split in the ÖVP camp would probably drastically reduce the chances of the mayor’s chair. And because a solution to the power struggle will probably not be found that quickly, the damage might also be done quickly. As much as one always emphasizes the will to unity, once once more the city ÖVP gives a bad picture. That was often the case in the past. Closed rows are obviously not known here.
First row without feet. Georg Willi, remarkably calm and comfortable with the strategy of simply smiling from various photos as mayor until the 2024 election, will take good note of this. Just like the FPÖ. If the VP and FI do not agree on a common and strong candidate, then Deputy Mayor Markus Lassenberger has good cards to reach for the mayor’s chair as the blue frontman. The other factions agree that it is the ÖVP’s turn when it comes to arguing.
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