Karlheinz Kopf, former president of the ÖVP club, secretary general of the Economic Association, second president of the National Council and currently secretary general of the Chamber of Commerce, will retire from politics in 2024. “When the legislature ends, I will be 67 years old. I am not standing for another term.”
Asked about his experience of government cooperation with the various parties, Kopf stated that the ÖVP and SPÖ had long had a relationship when they joined the EU. “With the FPÖ and later the BZÖ, it was an interesting economic policy because we tapped in a similar way,” de Altacher said in an interview with ORF Radio Vorarlberg. From 2006, with his counterpart Josef Cap as SPÖ club president, it was a “particularly challenging time”, but it worked well.
The cooperation with the Greens is also successful, although the party has “a different orientation, ideologically and socio-politically”. In any case, two-thirds of the government program has already been processed.
No more resentment about appointments
Kopf also admitted that he would have liked to become chairman of the National Council in 2017. But he no longer holds a grudge. “We finished first, not least because of Sebastian Kurz’s charisma. It was also his right to propose the chairman of the National Council,” said the long-serving MP, who has been a member of the National Council since autumn 1994.
Source: Krone
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