“I would feel uncomfortable with a communist as mayor of Salzburg,” former Federal President Heinz Fischer said on Thursday during a joint election campaign meeting with SPÖ candidate Bernhard Auinger. “There is a better option,” says Fischer.
The 85-year-old SPÖ grandee came to Salzburg as an election worker. In the last days before the second round of elections in the capital, it is important to mobilize all undecided voters. The SPÖ bases itself on warnings about communism.
Fischer spoke out in favor of his red party colleague Auinger. He did not want to say a bad word about opposing candidate Kay-Michael Dankl (KPÖ Plus), but he did point out: the question is how a communist city boss would influence the city’s image abroad.
Only 821 votes separated Auinger and Dankl
The chances of an election victory for Auinger are good, but in the first voting round on March 10, the SPÖ deputy mayor (29.4 percent) and KPÖ Plus municipal councilor Kay-Michael Dankl (28.0 percent) were only 821 votes apart.
SPÖ party leader Andreas Babler only announced his presence at the election party on Sunday.
Source: Krone
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