Contrary to the original statements, the appearance of the “Salzburg Beer Party” (SBP) in the state elections in Salzburg on April 23 was not a serious political project, but an artistic one. “The messages of support were real and the electoral list was real,” culture manager Paul Estrela said on Thursday. However, a “self-destruct mechanism” was built in to ensure that the party would not appear on the ballot paper.
All the people on the list had already filed a waiver when they filed it with the state’s election authority — which made it impossible for the election commission to accept the SBP’s participation.
The aim of the campaign was to show that today parties are often only seen as brands and that colors and sayings often play a bigger role than the ideologies behind them. “We wanted people to question that,” said Estrela, who on Thursday, clad in a monk’s habit, slapped 150 messages of support on a wooden sign outside the seat of the Salzburg state government.
List position 1 auctioned at Willhaben
The auction of list number 1 for 103.95 euros also showed that there are things that people do not consider possible, but that are legal. “We received much more positive than negative feedback. We expected that offering a place on the list for money would spark more outrage than encouragement. rating, according to Estrela. Incidentally, he and his comrades-in-arms want to exhibit the result of the artistic intervention in Hallein in the autumn.
With the withdrawal of the Salzburg Beer Party, a legal dispute with the Austrian Beer Party by presidential candidate Dominik Wlazny alias Marco Pogo is also a thing of the past. He had filed a lawsuit for violation of naming rights and requested an injunction. As Estrela explained on Thursday, the beer party was rejected in court with a request for a preliminary injunction – but he does not yet know the reasons.
Source: Krone
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