One is black, robust and dates from the Pröll era, the other too. With Interior Minister Gerhard Karner and Defense Minister Klaudia Tanner, the ÖVP Lower Austria has two political heavyweights who could put them at the top of the list for the National Council elections. But now the most powerful national organization had to make a decision.
You don’t have to look far for a Lower Austrian manuscript from the federal government. It starts with Chancellor Karl Nehammer, who, as is known, was politically socialized in the Ferstlergasse in St. Pölten, and ends with Bernhard Ebner, who is now expected to lead the election campaign for the federal ÖVP after the election defeat in the vast country. .
In between is Wolfgang Sobotka, former vice president of the state, who has played himself out of the game with his ongoing anti-charm offensive for golden wings and in various U committees. So who will send the most powerful national organization of the Turquoises, which according to its own declarations has never been black but always blue and yellow, into the race for the National Council this fall?
Tanner ran forward, Karner caught up
The government bench in parliament is well filled with two ministers: as reported, the “Krone” recently gave Defense Minister Klaudia Tanner the better cards. Behind the political scenes it was heard that the ÖAAB’s guilt among the Farmers’ Association was too great to allow Johanna Mikl-Leitner to remain governor of Lower Austria after the historically worst result for the ÖVP. And also that Interior Minister Gerhard Karner had recently made significant progress in the internal rankings.
The “Lower Austrian Party” met in Vienna
The state party’s executive committee met on Wednesday, conveniently ahead of ministers, at Vienna’s Palais Lower Austria. The two then appeared together in front of the cameras. Sukus of emphasized unity: we will enter the National Council elections with “a dual leadership for our country”. But because the newspaper is not at all patient with its reputation, only one name can appear first on the ballot. And that is Gerhard Karner’s.
Source: Krone
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