After EU elections ahead of National Council elections: The Greens will meet for the second time this year at a federal congress next Saturday (June 22) to finalize their lists for the September vote. Vice Chancellor and federal spokesperson Werner Kogler will be chosen as the top candidate.
Ministers Leonore Gewessler and Alma Zadić, club boss Sigrid Maurer and general secretary Olga Voglauer also want to be prominently included on the federal list.
Kogler first on the list in the Graz regional constituency
Kogler is also in first place in the regional constituency of Graz and surroundings, where the Greens currently have a basic mandate.
Voglauer’s top candidate in Carinthia, Zadic in Vienna
Gewessler and Maurer will be exclusively on the federal list, while Voglauer is also the top candidate on the state list in Carinthia and Zadić on the one in Vienna. The current Minister of Justice is likely to obtain a mandate from the National Council via the state route, as the Greens controlled two regional constituencies and four state mandates in the federal capital in 2019 (with 26 mandates with 13.9 percent of the vote across the country ).
Mandant in Carinthia is faltering
In Carinthia, however, there was only one state list mandate, which is likely to falter given the expected losses. Voglauer therefore probably needs the federal list mandate to remain in the House of Representatives. In this third study, the Greens received four of their 26 mandates in 2019.
Smoke no longer appears
Minister of Health and Social Affairs Johannes Rauch is no longer active. This time the location is the Alte Ankerbrotfabrik in Vienna-Favoriten. The Greens’ highest party committee last met in Graz on February 24 to sort out the list of EU candidates.
State lists are available
The state lists of all federal states are also confirmed by the Federal Congress. In Burgenland, where no state mandate was achieved in 2019, Philip Juranich is at the top, and in Carinthia (2019: 1), as mentioned, Voglauer. In Lower Austria (2019: 4), Elisabeth Götze, Süleyman Zorba, Ulrike Fischer and Martin Litschauer were nominated. In Upper Austria (2019: 4, of which 2 at state and 2 at regional constituency level), Agnes Sirkka Prammer, David Stögmüller, Ulrike Feichtinger and Ralph Schallmeiner are in the lead.
Salzburg (2019: 1) has Leonhard Hartinger at the front, Styria (2019: 3, of which 2 state, 1 regional) has Jakob Schwarz, Bedrana Ribo and Anna Slama. In Tyrol (2019: 2), Barbara Neßler and Hermann Weratschnig lead the way. Vorarlberg (2019: 1) sends Nina Tomaselli into the race, Vienna (2019 6; of which 4 countries, 2 regional) sends Zadić and Meri Disoski, Lukas Hammer, Markus Koza, Naomi Samemeter and Felix Stadler.
Some high-profile departures
Outside the spectrum created in 2019, the current mandates Eva Blimlinger, Georg Bürstmayr and Faika El-Nagashi (all Vienna) are on the state lists. In Styria, Heike Grebien – through the regional mandate of Graz – would only play a role if Kogler is allowed to continue to govern. Sibylle Hamann, Ewa Ernst-Dziedzic, Michel Reimon and Astrid Rössler are no longer participating.
Source: Krone
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