After the first forecasts for the Carinthian elections, Sigrid Maurer, president of the green federal club, attracted attention with an irritating statement. Although the party failed to re-enter the state parliament, the Greens “achieved the goal,” Maurer said.
You managed to get a plus, everything else “you’ll see”, Maurer declared in the Ö1 “Sonderjournal” on Sunday evening.
For the federal government, the result means “that the works will continue with equal success”.
Kogler: “We’ve already proven we can fight back”
Maurer came with the federal party leader and vice chancellor Werner Kogler to the election center in the state government of Carinthia. “We have already proven that we can fight our way back,” Kogler stressed after the projections.
According to Christoph Gräfling (second on the list of the Carinthian Greens), it was still the right way to focus fully on the theme of climate protection in the election campaign.
Greens: Only in Carinthia not in the state parliament
For the Greens, the governing party in the federal government, Carinthia – from which they were expelled in 2018 – remains the only state without a state parliament. That the south is a difficult place for smaller parties – even if they are on the National Council – is nothing new. It was also very hard for the Greens, who have been represented in the National Council since 1986, to conquer Carinthia’s state parliament – and the return is just as hard. They only got their first mandates in 2004, but the election result in 2013 was relatively thin, with a maximum of 12.1 percent.
And in 2018, Carinthia was the only federal state where, after the debacle of the National Council in 2017 – “enriched” by internal quarrels – they also had to say goodbye to the state parliament and thus to the (formerly red-black-green) state government. The Greens made a triumphant return to the National Council in 2019 and have since even been a coalition partner of the ÖVP in the federal government. But in Carinthia the doors of the state parliament remain closed to them,
Source: Krone
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