The first immediate federal political impact of the state elections in Carinthia concerns the Bundesrat. According to a first trend calculation, the majority of the federal government in the state chamber of the National Council that was lost after the elections in Lower Austria should have been regained. The reason: the ÖVP should win a mandate from the SPÖ and thus provide 25 of the 61 mandates. The SPÖ will provide 18 federal councilors.
“It’s a big surprise that I didn’t expect at all,” said Werner Zögernitz, president of the Institute for Parliamentarism and Democratic Questions, shortly after the first SORA trend calculation for the APA. With 31 to 30 in the plenum and 31 to 29 in the committees (only Bundesrat members belonging to a parliamentary group are represented here), the government once again has the majority and no longer has to worry about whether laws will be passed in the National Council with their majority are placed on the waiting bench by the regional chamber.
“So the government no longer has to wait for the results of the May census,” said Zögernitz. What is meant is the result of the 2021 census, which will be announced in May and will have an impact on the Federal Council.
Which federal state has the most mandates
The number of seats per state is determined by the size of the population. The federal state with the most domestic wealth (currently Lower Austria) always gets twelve mandates. All other countries receive their mandates in proportion to their (Austrian) population relative to that of Lower Austria. As the population in Vienna has increased, but the number of Austrian citizens in the federal capital has shrunk, Vienna is likely to lose one mandate and have only ten mandates instead of eleven in the future.
A Liberal would likely be affected as it is secured with the fewest votes. The Bundesrat would then consist of 60 instead of 61 members.
Source: Krone
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