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Political earthquake in Arlberg: the former mayor of Lech from the ÖVP is losing in the second round. He stumbles upon a real estate project with Rene Benko. Black Sunday for the ÖVP in Bregenz and two other communities.
3:51 pm, September 27, 2020
The Mayor of Lech am Arlberg, Ludwig muxel (65), was voted on by the citizens of the community on Sunday. After more than 27 years in office, he lost to his rival in the second round of the mayor’s election. Stefan jochum (54). While Jochum received 549 votes (53.56 percent of the votes), Muxel had to be content with 476 votes (46.44 percent). The turnout was 80.64 percent (first vote: 81.09 percent).
Muxel caught up with the votes on Jochum, but not enough to reverse the outcome of the election two weeks ago. Even on the first ballot, the mayor was clearly behind Jochum (496 votes, 47.65 percent) with 369 votes (35.45 percent). According to his ideas, Muxel would have wanted to sit in the mayor’s chair for two more years and then hand it over.
Benko’s controversial real estate project
Muxel stumbled upon plans for the design of the new community center. The large project, which is already being executed, with an investment cost of 38 million euros, divided the community. Jochum scored particularly well among voters for his attitude that the big project was going in a direction he didn’t like.
The disputes reached a fever pitch in July: traders raised the alarm in an open letter: they wrote that the KaDeWe group of the Tyrolean real estate investor Rene Benko They have unveiled a finished concept for a 2,510 square meter shopping center in the community center. This would double Lech’s retail space in one fell swoop.
A longtime Muxel colleague and confidant, Jochum, who is Lech’s registrar, only decided to run for direct mayoral election in the summer. On the original election date of March 15, which was postponed due to the crown pandemic, Jochum’s name would not have been on the ballot.
ÖVP defeats at Bregenz, Lochau, Hard
Former leader of the state party SPÖ, 52, politician SPÖ Michael ritsch becomes mayor of Bregenz, the state capital of Vorarlberg. He sat in the second round of the mayor’s election with 51.67 percent of the vote against the current 60-year-old ÖVP mayor. Markus Linhart (ÖVP). Ritsch becomes the first Social Democratic mayor of Bregenz in 30 years.
Ophthalmologist Frank Matt becomes the first green mayor of Vorarlberg. Sat on Sunday in Lochau on Lake Constance in the second round of the mayoral election against the incumbent Michael simma (61, ÖVP). In the second round, Matt turned a 151-vote deficit in the first round of elections into a 224-vote lead.
Leader of the state party SPÖ Martin Staudinger he becomes the new mayor of his hometown, Hard, on Lake Constance. The 41-year-old received more support as a starter Eva Maria Mair (ÖVP). At 67.06 percent, Staudinger was clearly ahead of Mair. Since Staudinger wants to focus on the mayor’s office, he becomes the party chairman.
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