Attack against Kern – ‘Maybe Doskozil promised him something’

Just before May 1, the celebration of social democracy, nerves seem quite tense. While Doskozil and Andreas Babler campaign across the country, the party leader confines herself to, as she herself says, “her political work”, but at some point it is enough for her too. On Saturday evening, Pamela Rendi-Wagner made an overwhelming attack on her challenger Doskozil and his most prominent supporter Christian Kern in the “ZiB 2”.

“Cross Shots from Burgenland”
The SPÖ had “very good content and people’s confidence” until the first “cross shots from Burgenland” came: “You don’t win elections that way, no party benefits from that.” whoever continues to lead the SPÖ must now finally calm down, says Rendi-Wagner: “We have delivered substantively good concepts and solutions, for example in the field of energy transition and the shortage of doctors. But I can put my hat on all these things if we fail to communicate this content to people in a unified and unified way.”

In an interview with the Presse am Sonntag, Rendi-Wagner had already accused Christian Kern of lacking character. She echoed this on ORF, repeating, “It’s a comment I’m not alone in making.” This is Kern’s support for Doskozil, “who refused to take children out of dirty refugee camps and Viktor Orban as a ‘reliable partner’.” referred to”, a 180-degree turn from the former party leader in his European policy line.

“Maybe Doskozil promised him something”
And Rendi-Wagner goes even further: “Christian Kern currently has no active role or position in the party. And if I remain party leader, he won’t get it either. But maybe that’s why he supports Doskosil, maybe he promised him something.”

Werner Faymann once had to learn that the mass meeting of the SPÖ on May 1 could certainly produce political explosives. Pamela Rendi-Wagner is still relaxed about the red holiday. Of course, supporters of Babler and Doskozil are also welcome at Rathausplatz: “We must recognize that the real opponents are not in our own party. We are a big social-democratic family and that will not change.”

Tension for May Day
In any case, there will be an opportunity for intensive red election campaigns on Monday. Rendi-Wagner will speak at Vienna’s Rathausplatz, flanked by her biggest supporter, Vienna’s mayor Michael Ludwig. Doskozil will remain in his home country on May 1 and will give a speech in Kobersdorf in the center of Burgenland. The third candidate, the mayor of Traiskirchen, Andreas Babler, is planning several speeches in Lower Austria, particularly in Krems, Traiskirchen and Gerasdorf. One can be curious.