Two words caused a stir this week. Hans Peter Doskozil wished the SPÖ “all the best” for the upcoming National Council elections; the sarcasm was unmistakable. The governor of Burgenland talks to Conny Bischofberger about his success models, the sensitive issue of migration, his new book and what the many larynx operations have done to him as a person.
The southern spa town of Bad Tatzmannsdorf in Burgenland still seems sleepy; it’s Friday, very early in the morning. The national leader’s dark BMW is already parked in the parking lot of the ‘Reduce Hotel’. Doskozil is touring communities hit hard by the flood, including his home community of Grafenschachen. “Land Below” in many parts of Oberwart. In the first two days alone, 2,000 damage cases were reported. One family has lost everything for the third time despite being protected from floods, according to the state’s governor. “This is a threat to our existence. And show what nature can do for us.”
Doskozil is not one of those representatives who always have rubber boots in the trunk. “There are already enough spectators. When people are fleeing for their belongings, it is not appropriate for a politician to get involved. I don’t like that.” Instead, he meets with mayors and community leaders to discuss emergency measures. In the “Lavender” seminar room, a table is set for the “Krone” interview. White tablecloth, bouquet of flowers, a jug of water, coffee Almost exactly a year after he gave the “Krone” his first interview as the new SPÖ chairman, he is sitting opposite me again. After an unprecedented disruption in the counting of votes, it became Andreas Babler lips of Doskozil, but hovers over our conversation like an invisible ghost.
“Krone”: Mr. Governor, with some distance from the shock of June 3, 2023, are you perhaps even happy that you did not become SPÖ leader?
Source: Krone
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