Manuel Scherscher, once a close colleague of Wolfgang Sobotka at the Ministry of the Interior, ran for the National Council for the ÖVP under Sebastian Kurz in 2019. Now he must continue the investigation against financial juggler René Benko, who had a close relationship with Sobotka and Kurz.
Manuel Scherscher is a fan of Sebastian Kurz. In 2019, he donned a turquoise ‘We for Short’ jacket and promoted the then frontman during the election campaign together with ÖVP parliamentarian Andreas Hanger. He posed not only with ÖVP club president August Wöginger, but also with Wolfgang Sobotka, his former boss at the Ministry of the Interior.
Like Scherscher, Sobotka comes from the Mostviertel. The current chairman of the National Council was at the head of the Lower Austrian state list at the time. Scherscher ranked fifth on the Mostviertel ÖVP list for the 2019 National Council elections. A photo on his Facebook profile also shows him with Sebastian Kurz.
This commitment to Kurz and the People’s Party would be fine in principle and not worth mentioning. Why would a committed local mayor and deputy local party chairman of the ÖVP Amstetten not stand up for his political views? But with Scherscher, matters are a little more delicate: the 45-year-old has been working in a prominent position since 2017.
Source: Krone
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