Start of the election campaign – green prelude: “Our Helga doesn’t give a shit!”

Small party really big: what the Greens are behind the competition in terms of members, the Ökos like to make up for with undisguised enthusiasm. Yesterday’s campaign kick-off in Horn also testified to this. The motto “For Tomorrow” was trumped on stage by the name of the top candidate.

In general, the state parliament was completely tailored to Helga Krismer, party greats from Vienna gave her green roses: “Helga is a real fighter. Someone who goes to great lengths and stands up for her ideas,” said Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler, Transport Minister Leonore Gewessler also traveled to the Waldviertel despite the impending railway strike to praise the assertiveness and strength of the top green candidate: “Helga just doesn’t do it ‘I don’t give a fuck! “

Significant increase in election
After the significant minus of no less than 8 to 6.4 percent in the last state election, Krismer wants to achieve another plus this time – but above all a rethinking of the “fossil policy dinosaurs” in the state government. ÖVP, SPÖ and FPÖ would arrange everything among themselves there, but really important matters such as the construction of new wind turbines fell into the water in favor of fracking in Weinviertel. For the expansion of renewable energy, the deputy mayor of Baden called for more soil protection and higher investments in public transport.

Climate policy is at a standstill
“But the Greens also stand for political decency,” the frontwoman alluded to the corruption allegations against the Turkish Federal Party, which also casts black shadows on Lower Austria. Governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner also got her fat off: “Nothing has changed in terms of energy and climate policy since she took office,” says Krismer.