2023-04-23 20:01:05
TYROLEAN DAILY NEWSPAPER “Editorial” dated
Innsbruck (OTS) – The Salzburg state election was certainly not lacking in surprises. Where is the badly battered ÖVP headed? Nervousness is rising in the union. The communists deliver a sensation. And the republic is fraying at the edges.
Where do you want to start? In the case of the ÖVP, which, as the governor’s party, suffered a bitter defeat as before in Tyrol and Lower Austria (and like the SPÖ in Carinthia) – but was able to defend first place? With the right-wing FPÖ, which, despite the Ibiza video, cases of corruption and all that, steers from one election success to the next? Perhaps with the NEOS, which was kicked out of the state parliament as the previous governing party, or with the KPÖ, which entered the state parliament with over eleven percent and even reached over 20 percent in the city of Salzburg?
One has to pause to attempt a political diagnosis following such a result. In any case, the republic is fraying at the edges because an increasingly distant political center has lost the program and the language to respond to the needs of the population and to provide answers to the challenges of the time. They, meaning the two former major parties ÖVP and SPÖ and increasingly also the Greens, are unable to react to their own mistakes, they continue to practice phrases and standing sentences. They lack the fire and passion to advertise their ideas for the future. Instead, they dwell in a management mode.
An ever-increasing part of the population is losing faith in the creative will of those in government. So he turns away from the center and looks for new answers or well-known lures. The FPÖ and KPÖ Plus are the winners. Criticism of the establishment is no longer a Blue privilege.
The communists, long only a Styrian phenomenon, might represent a left alternative in the next national elections. The German philosopher Jürgen Habermas coined the term “new confusion” in his diagnosis of the times. This long-established word can also be used to describe the political landscape in Austria. Governing, even seeking majorities, becomes more complicated. In Salzburg, Wilfried Haslauer has to decide whether to enter into a coalition with the SPÖ – sometimes including the Greens – or form an alliance with the FPÖ. Either way, that offers explosives for the federal government hanging on the ropes. Meanwhile, the Chancellor’s Party is trying to sugarcoat its defeats and will drift further to the right in terms of content. The Greens lose the air to breathe and the SPÖ is preoccupied with itself. Austria will be different. Where to start now?
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