A fresh team and fresh faces: everything is new at the SPÖ with Babler. Can the left-left dream of a red-green NEOS coalition come true? It will be difficult, but it is possible…
A new leader must revive the comatose SPÖ. The club management, the national management and the communications department are now unknown names for the average political consumer. You must deliver now – it’s not far until the next National Council elections.
One can still dream
Then – if it is up to Babler – the left-left dream should become a reality. With a coalition with the Greens and NEOS never before seen in the federal government would prevent Kickl, who they say is currently “uncoalition-capable”, delayed by the ÖVP and assured a five-year shift to the left in this country. If that happens – what a success it would be for all left-handers! If the word if wasn’t…
What is the problem of the left
Because unfortunately it’s not that simple. The electoral potential is limited, the left half of the Reich is badly shattered with a party offer from the Greens, NEOS, KPÖ, a possibly competing beer party and the SPÖ. A left-wing three-party coalition is therefore very difficult to achieve even under optimal conditions. The dirndl variant desired by many on the left would get only a weak 43 percent, a right-wing blue-black government would have one partner less and 4 percent more.
Babeler will not address any FPÖ voters
That is why the SPÖ should attract swing voters from the right. What would have worked even under a migration-critical Hans Peter Doskozil is impossible with the non-Marxist Andreas Babler! So if he wants to rule after the next election, he’ll have to come up with something else…
The same goes for leftists
These purely mathematical considerations will probably also be the reason why the red neoboss recently rowed back and somewhat downplayed his ‘no’ to a coalition with the ÖVP, possibly out of a sense of reality, because a red-green-pink coalition is extremely unlikely. But this requires a miracle of the category of an Ibiza video. But, as is known, hope dies last, probably also on the left.
Source: Krone
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