“Apparently you really have to get a d’over first, so that consequences can then be drawn,” says the editor-in-chief of the Kronen Zeitung, Klaus Herrmann, about the personnel consequences of the SPÖ Lower Austria after the elections.
As is known, the SPÖ head of state Franz Schnabl will be exchanged for the former head of the AMS, Sven Hergovich, who is 30 years his junior. A decision that could have been made before the election. Although a result of this dimension has already become clear to the SPÖ, they apparently did not have the strength and courage to jump to conclusions and perhaps strive for a better election result, Klaus Herrmann said in the krone.tv conversation with Jana Pasching .
It is doubtful whether the SPÖ has now realized that something needs to change. The state of the SPÖ in Lower Austria and at the federal level gives little hope that the party will find a successful path to the future, says Herrmann.
‘The SPÖ is going in many directions’
Herrmann sees the reason in the many opposing forces within the SPÖ. On the one hand there is the left-liberal Viennese bloc, the Carinthian bloc, Burgenland and in Lower Austria the Traiskirchner mayor Andreas Babler and on the other hand the outgoing SPÖ leader Franz Schnabl and his successor Hergovich. “There are centrifugal forces here – the SPÖ is being pulled in so many directions that it is hard to imagine the Lower Austrian SPÖ settling down and the federal SPÖ certainly not.”
“The big discussion about the federal party leadership will break out at the latest when Carinthia and Salzburg have voted,” says Herrmann. “Pamela Rendi-Wagner’s chair wobbles from day one. It is quite possible that this chair will be gone in April or May.”
You can see the entire interview with “Krone” editor-in-chief Klaus Herrmann in the video above.
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