Behind the scenes – cards reshuffled: who is questioned

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“The ÖVP rattles down ten percentage points in elections – and then heads don’t roll immediately? We never had that before,” says someone who is well acquainted with the power structures and decision-making processes in the People’s Party. Has the ÖVP changed so much that after such a defeat when on Sunday just goes on as if nothing happened?

Absolutely not, but – as in the SPÖ – keep an eye on the calendar: state elections in Carinthia on March 5, in Salzburg on April 23. Until then, try to avoid personal conversations with the outside world as much as possible. They’re unstoppable anyway.

Does Wolfgang Sobotka’s chair wobble?
At the center of internal party debates – even in their homeland – are the black and turquoise Lower Austrians. Karl Nehammer, the half-Lower Austrian at the party leadership, has just landed the best deal. Even if more than two thirds in the “Question of the Day” of the “Krone” think that after last Sunday’s elections he is no longer firmly in the saddle. Within the party, the chairmen of the Chairman of the National Council and the minman in the confidence index, Wolfgang Sobotka, and Interior Minister, Gerhard Karner, are seen as much shakier, and party friends are increasingly critical of him.

“Sebastian Kurz – or a solution”
Karner has been blamed for the unfortunate handling of the migration/asylum issue in recent months. A black celebrity puts it concisely: “If you bring up such a subject, you also need the second part: either Sebastian Kurz or a solution.” And in the eyes of many voters (and party friends), neither Karner nor Nehammer need to. offer – but rather Herbert Kickl and his blues. According to internal criticism, voters are being driven to them en masse. Many people had predicted this before the election and now it has come true.

Doubts also from “country father” Proell
The criticism of the Lower Austrian provincial governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner is usually whispered behind closed doors. Mikl-Leitner’s predecessor and longtime supporter, Erwin Proell, went the farthest in public. The highly respected ‘father of the country’, who remained extremely popular in the country, had expressed doubts about Mikl-Leitner’s suitability for the management job. Once again people are whispering that the relationship between Proell and Mikl-Leitner has seen better days.

This much is clear: failure causes nervousness. And what seems clear to many: the heart of the ÖVP no longer beats only in St. Pölten, the cards are also being reshuffled in the distribution of power within the ÖVP (Austrian-wide). Still under the table now, after the end of the election round in April they will probably be thrown on the table.

Source: Krone

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