The Tyrolean ÖVP chairman and top candidate for the state elections, Anton Mattle, openly supports the re-election of incumbent Alexander Van der Bellen in the federal presidential elections on October 9. “I will choose the Tyrolean Alexander Van der Bellen,” he said in an interview.
And he will also support Van der Bellen in the election campaign “in conversation with the Tyroleans”, announced the ÖVP state party chairman. The federal president, who comes from the Tyrolean Kaunertal, has shown in recent years that he is “incredibly careful” and “has a very good feeling for the people”, Mattle hit the drum for the incumbent head of state in the APA interview.
Believes in victory on the first ballot
Tyrol’s ÖVP boss believes in Van der Bellen’s first-round victory: “I don’t think there will be a second round,” Mattle said in the APA interview. He only recently had the opportunity to exchange views with the head of state in Salzburg, he reported.
The ÖVP top candidate in the Tyrolean state elections did not want to answer the question whether he would also actively hold election campaign events with Van der Bellen in Tyrol. He was confident that the Federal President would conduct a “very strong, personal election campaign” across Austria.
ÖVP waives his own candidates
The ÖVP does not have its own candidate in the federal presidential elections. However, there is no official party advice for Van der Bellen. Recently, however, former Styrian ÖVP governor Hermann Schützenhöfer had openly campaigned for his re-election.
Source: Krone
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