After Bures leak on ORF – Babler: “It worries me, I will put an end to it”

Contrary to several experts and some surveys, SPÖ leader Babler still sees himself in a battle for the chancellorship, despite the faltering start to the intensive election campaign.

In order to bring about the necessary media turnaround, he repeatedly emphasized his core message during the conversation: he stands for clean politics and wants to improve the living environment of people in Austria.

First of all, Babler must bring order to his own party. When asked about the angry letter from the second president of the National Council and second on the Federal List, Doris Bures, which was revealed by the “Krone”, Babler said: “It bothers me that the paper was leaked. I will have to stop this.”

The election program has now been established
It is said that Bures has now at least agreed to Babler’s program, and the red agenda was generally approved with ‘only’ one dissenting vote.

In response to the scolding by all parties of Christoph Badelt, the President of the Budget Council, who described the parties’ economic programmes on Sunday in the ‘ZiB 2’ as ‘not serious and unrealistic’, Babler responded by saying that he would save five billion euros by raising corporate taxes alone, which would have to be taken in just one parliamentary term.

According to Babler, “conditions like those in a monarchy” prevail when it comes to the distribution of wealth. The SPÖ leader would only forgo wealth tax in coalition negotiations if the other party could explain to him how everything could be financed without cutting pensions or cutting health care or education.

“Politics is not a game”
Babler was also irritated by the political system in Austria for twenty to thirty years, and therefore also by his own party. He himself put himself forward as a candidate to renew the SPÖ and to question the self-critical processes within the SPÖ. “Politics is not a game,” said the SPÖ leader.