In the middle of the debate about the SPÖ leadership and luxury pensions at the ORF, Vienna’s mayor Michael Ludwig announced who will be his personal guest at this year’s Opera Ball. The fact that it’s Alexander Wrabetz, of all people, should set off explosives.
The former media manager and former general manager of ORF is currently chairman of the football club Rapid Vienna and – here comes the artistic context – chairman of the supervisory board of the Wiener Symphoniker. Recently, Wrabetz was at the center of a debate over luxury pensions on ORF – or so we reported.
8000 euros per month despite cutbacks?
The current Rapid President would receive an extra 8,000 euros a month from the financially distressed government service from the age of 65. For this, the broadcaster had to make a provision in the millions in times of an austerity ultimatum…
The SPÖ and especially the city party under Mayor Ludwig had been campaigning against the government’s austerity plans for the public broadcaster in recent weeks. Ludwig is the only leading opposition politician expected to attend the ball – but the fact that he invited Wrabetz of all places is symbolic in two ways.
Wrabetz acted as SPÖ hopeful
As there is renewed unrest within the party in the Social Democracy, federal party leader Pamela Rendi-Wagner is not trusted behind closed doors to curb the rise of the FPÖ under Herbert Kickl in the next election. Wrabetz is traded by some as a beacon of hope in the SPÖ. However, the question is whether he could gather enough (voter) sympathy to stand up against the PVV…
Source: Krone
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