Both Chancellor Karl Nehammer and his deputy Werner Kogler are up for election – within the party – in the coming weeks.
Since Werner Kogler was last elected leader of the Greens in 2018, no stone has been left unturned for the eco-party: they returned to parliament and entered government; not to mention the coalition turbulence with two chancellor changes.
In two weeks, Kogler will face another election — which, after nearly two and a half years in the coalition with the ÖVP, is an internal ballot test for the Green government’s participation. The bar for Kogler, who just a few days ago lost one of his most important internal allies with his emigrated chief of staff, is extremely high: in 2018 he received more than 99 percent approval.
That’s about where it is for Kogler’s coalition partner Karl Nehammer: His predecessor Sebastian Kurz was elected chief by 99.4 percent of Turkish deputies at the end of August 2021. On May 14, Nehammer ran for the first time as leader of the People’s Party at the party conference of the ÖVP in Graz.
While there are preliminary discussions about a departure from the Kurz party color of turquoise, otherwise the content should not be spectacular: The personnel power of the party leader, expanded under Kurz, should remain the same as the deputy party leaders elected last year.
Source: Krone
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