A few days before the party congress, in which he did not participate, Burgenland SPÖ leader Hans Peter Doskozil gave an interview. He was unusually tame when it came to internal party questions, but an announcement made the governor sit up and take notice.
“They ask me things.” When it came to internal party issues, Governor Hans Peter Doskozil acted unusually cautiously on Monday evening, because he usually does not mince his words.
Policy priorities and forecasts
Five days before the SPÖ party conference in Graz, Doskozil did not want to start a new conflict. At the management club in the center of Vienna, as part of an event organized by the “Agency C3”, the governor of Burgenland talked about his political priorities. But he did dare to make some predictions.
Five years ago, Doskozil and the governor of Carinthia, Peter Kaiser, created a migration document. Interviewer Thomas Prantner wanted to know if that was still the case. “I assume that the paper is still valid now. I cannot answer whether the newspaper will be undermined at the party congress.” But Doskozil stands his ground: for him, asylum procedures at the external borders are the only solution. He said nothing about legal escape routes, as Andreas Babler wants.
Wants to leave politics at the age of sixty
Then he made people sit up and pay attention with a message. Doskozil assumes that the Burgenland delegates will vote for Babler at the party congress. He will also support Babler in the election campaign. About his future, Doskozil said: “I want to win an absolute majority again in the state elections in 2025.” But at the age of 60 he will end his political career. That would be 2030.
Source: Krone
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