After the SPÖ’s disastrous result in Sunday’s state elections in Lower Austria, the board of the state party will meet early Monday evening. It will also be about the future of top red candidate and state party leader Franz Schnabl, who said on election night that it was clear to him “that there would be no personnel debate in Social Democracy”.
The red country manager Wolfgang Kocevar did not want to talk about personnel for the time being, but wanted to analyze the result first. The SPÖ state leadership will do so at 5 p.m. in the state office in St. Pölten.
Worst result ever
According to the provisional final result (including almost all voting cards), the Lower Austrian Reds had fallen to 20.66 percent (last 23.92), which means the worst result ever (previously 21.57 percent in 2013). As a result, the Reds lost a seat in the state parliament.
In the future, the Social Democrats will only have twelve representatives. In any case, the two seats in the state government can be saved, but they are no longer entitled to the state deputy.
First critical votes on election night
Critical voices already sounded on election night. For example, Hannes Weninger, former member of Mödling’s state parliament, said regarding the SPÖ campaign: “‘NÖ Mix’ and ‘Rote Hanni’ are not messages that can be used to gain political points in times of social crisis”.
Karin Scheele, member of the state parliament from the district of Baden, also does not want “just business as usual again”. The head of the SPÖ in Korneuburg, Martin Peterl, even described the situation to the “Lower Austrian News” as “dramatic”.
“You Can’t Go On Like This”
In the state party board, it will also be a problem to “discuss a reshuffle and the future direction,” an SPÖ official told the APA on Monday. It is about “acknowledging the seriousness of the situation”, one cannot “continue to do that”. The official assumed that “many and intensive discussions” would take place by noon.
Source: Krone
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